Help - moved to new macbook, now iTunes no longer recognising old library

Hi All,
Hope you guys can assist me.
I have recently purchased a new macbook pro and it is replacing my older macbook white.
I have always kept all my itunes music, both purchased and added from CD on an external 1TB hard drive. This was done becuase the 160GB internal HD got eaten up very quickly.
I set up the external drive and linked the itunes folder to itunes via preferences many moons ago, probably around itunes 6 or something like that.
Any who, I have just come to try and add my itunes music to my new macbook pro itunes, and I am not sure how to bring all the music into itunes.
I have to be honest, I have probably kept my folder stored on my external HD in the wrong configuration for my new itunes to recognise.
Please, please, please can you help with some advise:-
1. How should my itunes library (on external HD) be organised, i.e. should all music, TV, Movies etc, be under a specific folder?
     I am wondering if I replicated the file system currently in my macbook onto my external HD and then copied all the music folders into the correct folder, this might clean up my library.
2. How do I direct itunes towards my library on my external HD so to import all my music, TV etc, into itunes.
3. Any tips you have on keeping my library in check for the future.
Thanking you for any advise you can give.
Matt

Chris CA wrote:
I have recently purchased a new macbook pro and it is replacing my older macbook white.
You should use Migration Assistant to get everything from old computer onto new computer.
Then everything will work just like old computer..
2. How do I direct itunes towards my library on my external HD
(See above before doing this)
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from old computer to new computer.
Connect external to new computer and launch iTunes.
Hi Chris,
As mentioned in my previous post, all my itunes music etc, are/were on a seperate external HD, so never kept on my original macbook, so I am not sure Migration Assistant would have help me on this, as it is just a plug the external HD into the new macbook.
Therefore I still have the problem of directing itunes to my library on my external HD so that all music etc, shows up in itunes.
Matt

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