How to transfer iTunes to a second hard disc - internal or external.

I know this is a perrenial topic, but it still seems unusually tricky, and I've searched but not come up with all the solutions.
I have a modest size primary hard disc in my G5 (leopard 10-5-8), but a second one which is twice the size and empty. Plus two external hard discs which are huge - one terrabyte. So right now iTunes on my primary hard disc is slowing everything down and I want to put a whole lot more music in it.
So how to shift everything to the internal and/or external hard discs? I've tried and got nowhere. I shifted the library but the playlist didn't follow, so I put it all back again. And when I open iTunes on disc 2 which is empty apart from that, it just reverts to the window I get on disc 1. Doesn't seem to function properly on disc 2.
Ideas? I'd love some help with this - I'm a musician with projects for iTunes and this is driving me nuts.
andy

Did you move the whole music folder to the external drive, then hold down the option key while starting itunes so you could select the new library location on the external drive?

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