How do i get all my music in one library file?

My entire iTunes library is on an external hard drive "A". Due to my Powermac G5 dying, I had to set up iTunes on my Macbook Pro. I used Senuti to transfer all my music and content from my iPod to a different external drive I will call "B". Once that was set up, I erased and synced my iPod again. Everything is fine with the iPod and my Apple TV. In the iTunes preferences, I clicked Advanced and changed where I wanted my library to reside. I selected the new location which is drive "B".
My question now is that when I click on my iTunes Music folder, I am only showing 269 items which is a mixture of music and video content. I have well over 1,300 songs not to mention 87 music videos and 60 podcast videos. So when I did a search to see where a lot of my songs were located, I was surprised that it was showing the songs were being housed on external drive "A" even though I set it up that I want drive "B" to be where my library file should be. So as a test, I disconnected drive "A" then opened iTunes and tried to play a certain song and it said it couldn't play the song because the original file could not be found. When I reconnected the drive, it played just fine.
So what do I need to do to get all my music on one hard drive, for me that would be drive "B"? Do I need to follow the steps in the article below to make that happen? I have no problem with having a back up of my library, I just want all my music in one place in the location I have specified and keep the back up on the other drive so I won't have to keep it connected to the computer.
Thanks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449?viewlocale=en_US

Nevermind...I did what it said to do in the article and it worked!

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