iTunes Organization

I got the new 27 inch iMac over the weekend and now it gives me an excuse to consolidate my music collection from my wife's laptop, mine, etc.

Any thoughts on importing all of these songs into iTunes efficiently without creating a huge library with a ton of dupes?

What would you do if you could "start over" with your iTunes library?

Basically I want to avoid just importing a ton of songs then spending hours on end cleaning up the mess. Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks.

senuti is a great program that will let you import other libraries.

It will ask if you want to import duplicates if they have the same filename. might be worth a look...