How do I get my iTunes to work after following the instructions?

I followed the instructions that are written on this site (the Apple Support titled Moving iTunes to External Drive) and iTunes is still not finding the media? I did the consolidating library and then did the Pref>Advanced and told it to go to my Ext. HD but its still not showing the media.  I had to do this all to begin with because my startup disk is full and all my laptop's memory so I'm trying to clear it out by transferring everything I can to this 3TB external harddrive.  Please help!

Launch iTunes while holding down the option key.  When given the choice to create or choose an iTunes library, select the choose option and navigate to the iTunes library in your external HD.  You should not have to do this again unless you launch iTunes without mounting the external drive first.  If you do, iTunes will create another blank library on your internal HD.
See: To Open or Create an Alternate iTunes library:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1589

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