I-tunes won't open after restoring folder to HD

Hi!
I've spent about an hour trying to see if there's an answer to my problem, but I'm getting a lot of mixed information that I'm not willing to try out because I don't know the consequences...
Anyway, my music folder was eating up a huge amount of hd space, so I cut-and-copied THE ENTIRE 'MY MUSIC' FOLDER, including the i-tunes folder, to an external harddrive. I didn't check to see if there were any special steps that needed to be done beforehand. Anyway, when I tried to open i-tunes, I get: "The i-tunes folder cannot be found or created, and is required. The default location for this folder is inside the 'My Music' folder." Woops! So I recopied the i-tunes folder back to the automatically created "My Music" folder on my regular harddrive. It DOES contain the .itl file and the .xml file both. It also has some 'temp' file, but I don't know what that is (if it's an i-tunes file or not).
Well, I keep getting the same error message! I haven't tried opening any songs in the folder directly yet, because I'm afraid of what might happen. Also, I did find an article about 'right-clicking on the .itl file and the .xml file' and changing the info contained in there, but right-clicking doesn't produce any reaction; also, the itl file can't be opened, and opening the xml file suddenly changes the internet page I'm looking at to some amazing html/rss stuff..!
If it helps, because I live in Japan I have to use the Japan i-tunes store, and I have made 2 back-up data CDs using the steps recommended in my version of i-tunes.
Any help you folks can give me would be greatly appreciated! Links or whatnot are fine, and thank you for your time!

I read your post and wanted to know if your solution might help me.
I did the same thing about a year ago, moved my itunes library to an extl hd.
everything had been working fine (IPOD synchs to it, no problem)
About a week ago in an effort to get more space on my preload, I think I did something to itunes. I am able to open Itunes, my library is there but now when I go to synch my IPOD to it, it is telling me that my IPOD is synched with another itunes library. I don't want to have to redo all of my playlists on my ipod..i have no idea what other library they are talking about....
any ideas?

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