Change all referenced files in Aperture for entire library?

Hi experts...
All my Aperture files are on an external HDD and I had to copy everything over to a new drive recently. The old drive was called "photos", the new drive is called "My Passport". Without thinking about it, I made the new directory structure a bit different. On the old drive, my structure looked like this:
Volume = photos
File Path = photos/year/month/name_of_project/original_files.NEF
On the new drive, the structure is like this:
Volume = My Passport
File Path = year/month/name_of_project/original_files.NEF
When I started poking around in some of my projects, I found that Aperture told me that the originals were either missing or offline. I figured out how to reconnect all the originals in a given project - but I've got several hundred projects and reconnecting everything is going to be tedious and time consuming.
Is there a way (either through the program or via a script) that I can tell Aperture, essentially..."hey, for all the images in my library where the master used to be on drive 'photos' at <filepath>, they're now on drive 'My Passport' at <same filepath name except for top level directory>."
Alternatively, if I rename my new drive to "photos" and then put all the 'year' folders under a directory called 'photos', will Aperture be able to find everything magically?

A HA!!!!
I believe that did the trick. Aperture is chunking through all the referenced files now and reconnecting them...so I wait. But I'm pretty sure this will work, now that I think about it.
Once all the images are done reconnecting I'll come back and mark this as "correct answer". Thanks!

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Format                           : MPEG-4
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Codec ID                         : mp42
File size                        : 567 MiB
Duration                         : 1h 6mn
Overall bit rate                 : 1 188 Kbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-04-15 13:27:00
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-04-15 13:43:34
Writing application              : HandBrake 0.9.5 2011010300
Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
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Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                         : 1h 6mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 1 093 Kbps
Width                            : 718 pixels
Height                           : 370 pixels
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Maximum bit rate                 : 339 Kbps
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Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-04-15 13:43:33
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ID                               : 3
Format                           : Apple text
Codec ID                         : text
Duration                         : 1h 6mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 1 bps
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