Attaching USB drive with iTunes library to TC

Ok, so I've gotten Time Capsule working properly and I'm ready to move my USB drive, which contains my iTunes library, to TC. I tried it this morning, mounted the drive from my MacBook Pro, changed my library location in iTunes preferences, and iTunes cannot find my music files on the drive.
Is there any way to get iTunes to recognize my library without consolidating it, and without losing all my ratings, added dates, play counts, etc.?

I'm trying to do a similar setup- making my iTunes library available to a couple of desktops and laptops via the hard drive on Time Capsule. Copied my iTunes library there. Changed the preferences on a Mini and on a MacBook as a test. Both are connecting via Airport. They both see the new library, but I have to add the library manually to iTunes (Apple-O). The songs' "Date Added" all reflect the date I just added them. I don't rate my music, so can't comment on that. I'd guess the reatings would also be lost.
My guess is that you could copy both the "iTunes Library" and the "iTunes Library XML" onto TC and that might solve the issue (perhaps you would need to launch iTunes from one of those files by double clicking on them?) the first time. But I really have no idea if this would work.
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