Fresh install of Snow Leopard - Itunes on External HD

Hi
I recently upgraded from Tiger 10.4.11 to Snow Leopard.  My itunes folder (including all playlists, apps, artwork etc) is located an external drive, as it was when I was running Tiger.
I did a clean install of SL. 
How do I now get itunes to recognise the old folder, without creating a whole new folder.  I have over 120GB music, and don't have room on my HD to accommodate a whole fresh folder.
Thanks,
D

iTunes-Preferences-Advanced - uncheck 'Keep iTunes Media folder organized' and 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library'.  This will keep your previous file structure and will leave the files where they originally reside, creating only a pointer for iTunes as to their location.  Then, just do a normal File-Add to Library-select the appropriate location-Open.

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