How do I change the default project folder?

When I installed Garage Band, it chose the Music/GarageBand folder on my main hard disk to be the default storage location for GargeBandProject files. I then added an external firewire harddrive where I do all my recording work because my internal harddrive isn't fast enough. Whenever I start a new Garage Band project, it goes to the original default directory. I'd like to specify a directory on the external harddrive as the default, so that I don't have to navigate to it every time I create a project. Is this possible?
For that matter, is it possible to move the whole Music folder?
PowerBook G4 12"   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

That's the behaviour I would expect, which is why I'm surprised that my machine doesn't do this. It keeps going back to the original Garage Band folder, even after I've just opened a song on the external drive.
Regardless I put a link to my external drive in the folder, and that works well enough.

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