Am I missing something here...

Hello everyone,
I recently purchased a Macbook Air running OS X 10.6.8 and am having trouble importing my Itunes library from an external harddrive. I have itunes 10.5.1 and my itunes media folder is empty, meaning I have zero songs listed in itunes right now. My Mac harddrive is only 120 gbs, which I do not want to load up with any of the music on the 500 gb external. Therefore, what I would like to do is import all the music off of my external into my itunes without having any of those files saved to my Mac. I have read through several forums and even watched a few tutorials on youtube to try to figure this out but I have had no luck so far.
Here are my questions:
1. The music that is on my external has all been saved using itunes, however it is not saved under a folder named "itunes"... it is saved in a folder named "music". So, should i change the folder name to itunes or do I have to actually save the itunes program onto my external? The reason I ask this is because I tried using the import approach of itunes>preferences>advanced>itunes media folder location... and changing that to the music folder on my external and had no luck.
2. Since this is 500gbs of music, I have never been able to load all of these songs into a single itunes library at one time because I have never had a harddrive big enough to do that. I had a huge cd collection that I used itunes to rip the music from and at one time they went into the same itunes media folder but to save harddrive space I would transfer them to the external regularly. Does this matter?
I realize this is quite the earful, so if I didn't lose you please tell me what I am missing!!
~Thanks so much

Yours is a very long post and I have failed to understand what your issue is...
Too many words for me I'm afraid...
See here for the Correct way of putting iTunes onto an External Drive...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

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