HT1660 itunes library files relocation!!

how do I relocate these files and make itunes still recognize them? example: I closed itunes, moved these to another location, when started itunes up again, it created new files again, in the old location... I don't want that!

Hi, Dorothy, and welcome to the Discussions.
Just once, you're going to have to hook up the old computer, to copy everything over to the new one.
Please see:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1271401#1271401
and:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=607339

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