ITunes does not find the iTunes folder though it is there

Hi all,
I moved my Music folder on a separate HDD for space issues, and now my iTunes would not start saying that it cannot find the iTunes folder and it cannot create it.
I put the iTunes in several places, not just in My Music, so that it will find it, however it does not and refuses to start.
I am using Vista.
I tried deinstalling/reinstalling iTunes and it does the same thing.
I hate deinstalling it and going through the whole registry in order to delete all entries that contain "iTunes".
Thank you

Hold Shift then launch iTunes.
Select *Choose existing library* then select the _iTunes library.itl_ file in \My Music\iTunes\ folder you moved.

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