Can I delete the songs on my PC?

I am a disaster. I have a 30G IPOD, I downloaded 954 songs from my CD collection onto my C: Drive on my laptop. The songs are backed up onto a DVD. Can I delete the collection? If I do when I plug in my IPOD will it sync and delete all the songs off my IPOD? I purchased an external hard drive, can I install my IPOD software onto that and download the rest of my CD collection to that?
I am dangerous when it comes to the delete key, so I want to make sure I am doing this right. Thanks in advance for your help.
April

April,
If you have backed up your iTunes and now want to delete the tracks from your PC, then you need to change your iPod to the "manually manage songs and playlists" update option. That way you will be able to have a different set if tracks on your iPod without it autosyncing and getting erased. Make the change to the setting before making any changes to iTunes. You'll get instructions here: "Managing Your Songs Manually" http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/ipgettingstartedt3.html

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