How can I tell my apps where their Application Support folders are?

Hi there- I thought I had this solved with an earlier post but looks like I don't.
I just installed an 120GB SSD in addition to my 500GB HDD in my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion. I did the following things:
1. Carbon copied my entire HDD onto the SSD (everything but the /Users and /Applications folders)
2. Booted from SSD and changed the "user folder location" to point to the users folder I left on the HDD (in System Preferences+Users and Groups+Advanced Settings.)
3. All of my apps showed up as brand new or were malfunctioning in some other way. I've figured that this is because they can't find their Application Support folders (which may be in the Users directory on the HDD) Upon seeing that my Apps didn't have any data, as in, they thought they were brand new, I moved the Applications folder to the SSD too. This doesn't solve the problem.
4. I then set up a symbolic link on the HDD that points to the actual folder on the SSD. Still nothing.
But the apps are all missing their Application Support files. My EyeTV thinks it's brand new and unactivated, my screen saver program is confused, Audition won't even open, and so on and so forth. My concern is not the " You are launching this app for the first time" message. I'm fine with that- I only care about the fact that none of these apps know where any of their files and settings are and I can't tell them.
How can I make these apps (or Mac OS) know where all these files are? I didn't think I messed with too much...

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