Is it possible to change drive letters for library files

Without having to delete and re-add everything? It would be very nice for all my playlists and my iPod and playcounts and whatnot if this were possible.
If not, what is the easiest way to getting all your music with a new drive letter and managing to keep all playlists and whatnot.
I ask because I'd like to be able to access my music on multiple computers but the drive letter D:\ associated with the library is taken on most systems I go on (and on many cannot be changed for various reasons)

To be portable the iTunes library and it's assoicated files should be kept together in one folder, with all the media being in held a designated subfolder. iTunes for Windows normally creates the main iTunes folder at <profile>\<documents>\<music>\iTunes. Inside iTunes should be the sub-folders *Album Artwork*, *iTunes Music* and typically *iPod Games*. From iTunes 8.0 the iTunes folder will usually contain the following library files:
*iTunes Library.itl*
*iTunes Library.xml*
*iTunes Library Extras.itl*
*iTunes Library Genius.itl*
sentinel
If you rename or move the main iTunes folder as a whole, then hold SHIFT while opening iTunes (which gives an option to create a new library or open an existing one), then browse to the new location of the *iTunes Library.itl* file, iTunes will open the library, work out the new locations of any files stored in or below *iTunes\iTunes Music* and place new rips or downloads in the correct relative location. If such a library is put on a portable drive, the drive can be connected to multiple computers, each running the same version of iTunes, and the library can be accessed with iTunes irrespective of which drive letter is assigned by each machine.
As far as I can tell you were taking an existing library, changing the location for files to a new target, consolidating to that new location and then moving the itl files. While this would appear to be the advice given I'm not sure it is as simple or effective as just moving the whole folder.
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