Hardwood Floor Help

[Bob Thomas]

I have a quickie question. I have hardwoods under my dining room rug. The rug was a wall to wall the old owners put in. I wanted to tear the rug up and expose the hardwoods but ran into a problem. While testing an area to see what kind of shape the hardwoods were in, I noticed that when they installed the wall to wall, that "Kick" machine thingy that stretches the rug gauged the hardwoods all along the wall. Also, the strips that hold the rug in place were nailed into the hardwoods.

My question is this: Is there anything I can do to clean up these gauges and nail holes? Something like a putty? Do I have to replace the boards all together? The rest of the floor looks pretty good in the area I checked so I would like to expose it all.

Thanks...sorry for the long winded explanation!