I moved My Music from C drive to E drive and then all my problems started

My C drive was very full, so I moved My Music to E drive which had lots of spare capacity.
Unfortunately after the move itunes opened but my library was empty. I discovered from the itunes help that I should not move the library file. I reversed the move by moving back My Music to C drive and recovered my library by following the instructions in this link http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732.
My library is now back in itunes, but when I connect my iPod itunes freezes (and in windows task manager 'itunes is not responding') and my iPod says do not disconnect.
I am now stuck.
All I wanted to do was move ‘my music’ to a part of my hard drive with space, I have failed to do that and have now I have no iPod connection and a malfunctioning itunes. Can anyone help me out of this mess please?
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Here are typical layouts for the iTunes folders:
Ideally your library would be in the layout on the right and stored either at <User's Music>\iTunes or the top level of a different drive, e.g. D:\iTunes, with all content inside the iTunes Media folder.
iTunes usually doesn't cope well if you move files around by hand so getting from where you are now to where you want to be might take a few steps. How easy it is also depends on whether you can afford to let iTunes copy every song you have into the correct location before deleting the originals. If not I can offer a script that can move files around instead of copying them. The first thing to establish is the current locations of your library files and your media folder. The script iTunesInfo can help reveal this if you're not sure.
I have a post on making a split library portable that describes how to restructure your library. If you let me know what things are where I can suggest a set of steps that will get your library set up right.
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