ITunes 10.2 not deleting old versions of updated apps

My setup has my iTunes library in the default location on my C: drive.
Most of my apps though are located on my E: drive (for space reasons).
With iTunes 10.1, when an app was updated by iTunes, iTunes would delete the old version from the E: drive and place the update on the C: drive -- this was fine. I had no problems with this (ocassionaly moving the apps manually to the E: drive).
With iTunes 10.2, it places the new app on the C: drive and leaves the old version on the E: drive. This is not a good situation as iTunes allows for different apps that have nothing to do with each other to have the same file name.
If I was to manually move apps now, I will have to deal with a lot of headaches of figuring out whether to allow / not allow files to be overwritten.
Please go back to the iTunes 10.1 method of deleting an old version of an app whereever it is located when storing the newer version of the app in the default library.
Thank you.

Thanks so much for all your help.
Bob

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