ITunes backup question

The thought of reloading 20gb of music terrifies me so I want to make sure I'm doing this right.
When I entered the world of iTunes I had a computer with little hard drive space so I kept my library on an external hard drive. I have since gotten a new computer and a lot more music in the library.
I still keep the library on the EHD and make a copy in My Music on the C drive. This seem backwards to me so I want to change the location to the My Music folder and use the EHD as the backup. I went into preferences and changed the location to C/mymusic<iTunes and unplugged the EHD. I tried to open iTunes but got the message that it could not be found. I connected the EHD and the library was there and the copy is still in My Music. I seem to have missed a step or two.
I don't like to guess in areas where I'm clueless but could this be because iTunes software is not downloaded onto the C drive(only the E drive) or would this be copied along with the music files? Or am I way off base in which case could someone point me in the right direction?
A related question: I honestly didn't even realize that I was making copies of the files when I added to the library. No doubt some Apple programmer foresaw my idiocy and made it the default setting and I thank them. Do I need to tell iTunes that I want to back up on the E drive or will it see that is where iTunes is located and send the copies there? And will it do this automatically when I connect the E drive, or will I need to tell it to do this?
Thank you

I've run into a couple more questions.
I'm running XP and it seems I have 2 My Music folders. One is on the C drive in My Documents and the other is... I'm not sure where it is. In windows explorer it's listed above the C drive - and it's not D,E, or F). So, where is this folder - and the others with it - stored? I don't think I have any more drives and only 1.2g of RAM. Is this a normal XP feature?
Anyway, both folders have music. The one not on the C drive says the file size is 394kb, yet when I open it my entire library is there - saved settings and everything. I tried to combine the two folders using windows explorer into the non C drive folder and it told it could not hold everything.
With the EHD unplugged I click on the iTunes icon and it says iTunes not located and gives the option to choose or create library which would be fine if I could create a new library and import the old one but I couldn't figure out how to do this.
Do I need to combine the two folders using windows explorer into the C drive My Music? Will this allow me to access the library using the iTunes desktop icon?

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