How do I move the iTunes library to a new hard drive?

The 600 Gb startup drive in my 2006 MacPro had gotten corrupted (however iTunes worked just fine and is used to backup my ipad and iphone), so I put in a new 1T internal drive and installed Lion on it and other applicatiions, including iphoto without problem.  Now I want to transfer all my itunes stuff, including playlists, etc to to the new 1T internal from my 600GB internal .  I tried following the support article "itunes for mac: moving your itunes Media folder" but it did not work.  I think the article assumes you are not changing your start-up disk and just need to point somewhere else to find the media folder.  Is there a directory I need to also move to my new operating start up drive? Anyone know what I need to do?  Thanks!

This might be a better article for you
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751
essentially you move everything under the Music Folder
Username/Music/
To the same place on your new drive
Then hold down the option key while starting iTunes and select the location of your new library

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