External hard drive has to be updated each time I boot up.

Hi
I have moved my iTunes music to an external Hard drive (F:). I have pointed the software to the new folder and iTunes successfully recognizes it and all works fine.
The problem occurs when I reboot. I seem to have to "add the folder" (File > Add Folder to library) before it recognizes the music again. This means iTunes importing my library every time I boot up - not great. Also, my iPod (160G 5.5G Video) can't sync as iTunes tells me that my ipod is synced to another library, would I like to erase all data and resync with the current computer...
I'm sure I'm doing something really simple wrong. Please help!
Jack
Manchester

If I understand well, you don't use FontBook to install fonts but to activate them.
Is it really useful to disable so many fonts?
More on that, If you have only 5 or 6 fonts available as default, it's that you disabled a lot of fonts from the <startupVolume>:System:Library:Fonts" folder which much be ALWAYS active.
Look at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307069
If I remember well, FontBook (which I don't use) is unable to auto-activate fonts for this or that program.
This is why I leave all the fonts installed and activated all the time.
To auto-activate sets of fonts for this or that program, you must use an other program like:
Linotype FontExplorer X.app (free)
<http://www.linotype.com/en/fontexplorerX>
or commercial products.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 22 décembre 2008 13:29:07)

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