HELP linking songs to ext HD  - moved music folder - got Exclamation marks

I moved my music folder to an ext HD per the Apple article. Songs in my library have exclamation marks next to them & cannot be automatically located by iTunes. I can access them manually, but am looking for a way to correct whatever I did wrong that killed the link to my library & make the exclamation marks go away.
Thanks!
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

A library is everything in the iTunes folder.  Was the whole folder copied?  If not, you only transferred media, not the whole library.
You do not tell iTunes where to find media by changing the preferences settings.  You tell iTunes where to find media by either adding it to iTunes in the first place or by letting iTunes move the media.  Changing preferences settings only tells iTunes where to put media from that point on.
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
iTunes 9 [and later]: Understanding iTunes Media Organization - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847
What do you want on the external drive?  The whole library, or only media? 
Typically if you break the links to all files by moving the media folder to another drive in Finder iTunes will ask you to find a file.  It will then offer to find others (takes some time).  If it did not offer to do this or that didn't work then you have a non-standard folder structure and you are best off using your backup to restore everything and go back to the beginning and move it properly (we can help you with that).  If you don't have a backup then it will take some effort to rebuild your library file and some data will be lost (ratings, date added, playcounts).

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