Front Row not finding iTunes?

I recently moved all my music to an external hard drive, and since then, I haven't been able to use Front Row. The application starts up perfectly, but when I go to find any music to play, it says there is no music to be found. The message that pops up is "Front Row can't find any songs. Use iTunes to import songs or purchase songs from the iTunes store."
Anyone have any ideas on how to help? Thanks in advance!

I have the same issue. I think it is b/c the library is also on my external drive - I think Front Row looks for it in the Music folder. My pictures are in the Pictures folder and Front Row seems to be picking it all right.
Anybody knows how to direct Front Row to search for the library on the external drive?

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