How to Consolidate MULTIPLE iTunes Libraries?

I’ve found myself in a situation where my iTunes file organization has gotten out of hand. Originally this occurred because I had an iBook with only a 60GB HD, storage was tight, so I had to keep my music on both an external HD as well as the iBook’s internal HD … a real pain in the butt.
So now I have three separate locations that hold the triad of folders: iTunes Library/ iTunes Music Folder/ iTunes Music Library.xml. In addition, I have about another 20GB of music in Mp3 or MPEG-4 format, which are in folders arranged by artist but are not included in an iTunes Library. I’m spread all over the place!
I just bought a new G5 Dual-Core last week and thankfully, I now have sufficient hard drive space to consolidate everything, but I have no clue as to how to proceed to merge the several iTunes Libraries into ONE, and then to add my other 20GB of music files to it (I believe I can accomplish the latter by using the import command in iTunes, correct) … with the desired end result of having all my music in one iTunes Library and stored in one location?
As it stands, I now have two small iTune Libraries on the G5 (filed in the ‘Music’ folder … this mirrors how it was on my iBook). On one external HD I have another very large iTunes Library (25GB), and on a third HD I have large collection of music (20GB) that is not currently cataloged in any of my iTune Libraries. I could really use some advice on how to get my iTunes in unified working order.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch!
G5 Dual-Core   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Thanks.
OK. I did the Consolidate command.
However, I'm not exactly sure what it did?
It looks like iTunes just COPIED the second location of my music files and placed them into the main iTunes Library (ie. the library that is referenced when iTunes opens)?
So, I'm assuming it is now safe to trash the files that were copied over/
I still have a third mass of music files (20GB) that is already organized in folders by artists (this was copied from another itunes on a different computer); they were pulled from a different iTunes Music Folder and but there is no 'iTunes Music Library.xml' or 'iTunes Library' file extant that accompanies them. So although they have already been organized (segregated by artist) by iTunes, they have not been imported into my current iTunes library. What's the most expeditious manner of bringing them in en mass?

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