How do I reconnect to an external drive with all my itunes

Today I migrated to an Imac and have successfully updated iphoto but itunes isn't working.
My G4 has a faulty logic board so I upgraded before the inevitable.
I have always kept my music on an external drive (500GB with 375GB available space)
I have followed all the postings on this forum and have
• changed the location in Preferences/advanced to the correct folder on the external drive
• copied and pasted the contents of the Itunes folder on the internal HD (not the folder just the contents)
iTunes Library Extras.itdb (12KB)
iTunes library Genius.itdb (28KB)
iTunes Music (which is empty)
iTunes Music Library.xml (12KB)
Previous iTunes Library (iTunes Library 2008-09-26 36KB)
• restarted itunes holding down the option & shift so that I get prompted to select a library
• choose "Previous itunes library" from the external drive
• deleted the contents only from the original music/itunes folder
• had a quick restart and nothing !
Can someone please guide me through it. Just a reminder that there is no music on the internal drive. All 23GB is on the external drive.
Blue skies
Dean

Are you using iTunes 8? After my update to iTunes 8, my Western Digital 500 GB My Book which stores my music library, is recognized in iTunes, but if I don't play any music or videos within a few minutes, and try to play shortly thereafter, it is nothing but a spinning beach ball. I must shut down the drive and and remount it. It does drive scan and then mounts allowing me to play music again.
I believe iTunes 8 has issues with external drives (FireWire only?) in some cases and is causing issues with the library readability and drive powering.
Have you tried a completely different drive with the same data? Not the easiest option, but It sounds as if you've followed all the right steps so far.
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