Is it possible to have two music libraries and eventually merge them?

I've got an old workhorse G4 desktop and a relatively new Aluminum laptop. I'm planning on buying an Intel desktop machine when they become available. In the meantime, I'm hoping to migrate everything to the laptop and use it exclusively. The problem is that the iPhoto and iTunes libraries are big and will get bigger.
Is there a way to have separate libraries on an external firewire disk and the internal (80 GB) drive on the laptop? So I'd be able to listen to music on the go and yet have access to all my music when I park the laptop at my desk and hook up peripherals (monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, etc.)?
And...when I finally buy that screaming Intel desktop machine, with a big internal drive, can I merge all this material together again?
Or, put it more generally -- how do you use a laptop, when it doesn't have space for those digital media files that we have all come to love?
Thanks very much for any light anyone can shed.
Steve

Yes, it is. Launch iTunes with the Shift key held down as needed, or use separate Windows user accounts.
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