How to manage itunes with two ipods

I have two iPods, a 60G photo and a 30G video. I have two macs, one at work, the other at home. My iTunes on the work computer has about 50G of music, and about 15G on my home computer. Until now, I have only synced the big iPod with the work computer and small iPod at home. I just got a very big external drive, and want to keep everything there. That raises several questions I thought someone here might know how to answer.
1) Where are the files so I can just copy them onto the ext hard drive? (I can probably find this for myself, but with my computer skills on mac, it will be frustrating, I imagine. Since I have the other questions, I thought htis one might be easy.)
2) How can I merge the two files? I know I have some duplicates, adn I know how to get rid of them once the two are merged, but how do the two files merge together in one iTunes file on my new hard drive?
3) Once the two are merged, can I set it so that certain types of music are put on one iPod, and other types on the other?
Thanks a lot, in advance.
Brad

1. Click on the folder in the Finder's sidebar with the house icon, and then open the folder named Music. The iTunes folder inside is the default location of the music library; if the songs aren't here, follow these instructions to locate them.
2. Drag the files into the Library section of the open iTunes application.
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