Help Network Drive problems with Itunes

Can anyone help me!! I use a Maxtor shared Drive with various Roku soundbridges around my house.
What i want is Itunes to always put my music in my shared storage Drive (HOME:My Music:itunes.i tunes music), but everytime i restart my Machine i get
the standard itunes Directory.(MacintoshHD:users:me:music:itunes:itunes Music)
does anyone know how to solve this
Regards
David Stephens
imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.1)

I'm using both itunes for Mac and iTunes for windows, I have a network drive that I have all of my music on. iTunes for windows reconizes the networks drive and all of the music. on iTunes for mac if you go to iTunes, prferences, advance you will find the folder on which all of the music is being stored. Have you tried that?
Further more I have not being able to link my iTunes for Mac to my network drive. when I tried it I had to first look for the network drive, connect to it and then from iTunes look for a folder to add to library. when I did that, itunes tried it to copy all of the music to the computer's hard drive, which I do not want. Do you know how to map a netwrok drive on to a mac computer?

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