Itunes 6 thinks 200gig Ext. HD is INSIDE the 30gig INTERNAL HD!

I know this sounds ridiculous but:
Tried to move 4.5 gigs of music over to a 200gig firewire external harddrive, but when ever I select "Consolidate Library," itunes gives me a "Not enough disk space" on INTERNAL DRIVE error, where "internal drive" is the name of my int. laptop harddrive.
I believe this is because the OSX path for an ext. hard drive is written like this:
INTERNAL HD:VOLUMES:EXTERNAL HD
I think Itunes 6 thinks the ext. hd is a volume INSIDE the int., and thus scanning the int. hd for space for enough space first. (But if I had enough space on the int. I wouldn't NEED to move the music!) What should I do? Do i just have to clear enough space on the int. hd to TRICK it into copying onto the ext.?
Powerbook G4 15 inch 1.67 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.2)

In the end i was able to solve the problem. I'm not sure why this happened, or why it worked, so if someone who understands better than I does, please feel free to explain.
1) cleared off enough space on the int. hd to actually fit 2x the number of mp3s i had on it.
2) went to itunes, selected my ext hd as the new library place, and selected "consolidate."
3) this time no error msg, and the "consolidating" dialog. box came up, did its thing, and finished.
4) checked my ext. hd, and the files were there, but also noticed that avail. space on the int. hd was noticeably smaller. exactly as if duplicate copies of the mp3 files had also been copied onto the int. hd as well.
5) opened a shareware prog called FILE BUDDY that lets me see invisible files, and checked the int. hd. Sure enough, in a folder called "volumes" on the int. hd, there was a folder with the same name as the ext. hd, and in it were duplicates of all the mp3's. DELETED the duplicates using FILE BUDDY.
problem solved.
now i don't know much about unix boxes or OS stuff and am essentially a noob so i don't know if this is normal, but i noticed that this whole "referring to the ext. as a folder inside the int." started happening alot more when i re-formatted my ext. as MAC OS EXTENDED (journaled) (it had previously been a UNIX format, but used to have all kinds of much worse problems...)
Anyone know how or why this happens?
Oh, and spcl thanks to FILE BUDDY. (wish it had a longer trial period tho.)

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