Windows Media Player bloated library

[Guest Elephant]

I'm running Windows XP home edition SP2.

 

I rarely use Windows Media Player as I have other players for playing

MP3 files. The other day, I opened the Windows player to play a

certain file. I clicked on the library tab and to my surprise, it was

loaded with thousands of files! Files that I had never opened with

Windows Media Player.

 

My question is, why are they showing up in the library, and, how do I

get rid of all of them?

 

I don't have a "My Music" folder......don't need it, deleted it.

 

I checked the properties of some of the files. They pointed to a folder

that doesn't exist.