How can I redirect the library to look at another drive

I have an mp3 collection which has outgrown my hard drive. It is in a folder on the desktop with subfolders (representing albums) which contain the mp3s. My modus operandi is to drag and drop album folders into the playlist window which creates a playlist. I don't import them, per se, so they don't end up in ~/Music/ITunes. I have a gozillion playlists as a result. I bought a new behemoth drive and have copied the music collection to it but I don't relish the idea of rebuilding the playlists by hand. I tried exporting the Library song list as text and editing it so all entries have the new drive listed instead of the old drive, and then reading that file in using an applescript that was designed to repair corrupted libraries. It went through the motions but didn't change anything. (Seemed like a good hack) Anybody have any ideas on how to do this?
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I just moved my library over and then created an alias in place of the library. My library is the ~/Music/iTunes type, I don't know if it would work for you, but it could.
What is this AppleScript? If you check back in the forum you'll see I have a thread about my library being corrupted. Although it appears to be the files, I wouldn't mind trying a library maintenance tool.

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