ITunes library contents at several HDs, how to move location?

I have a problem with having iTunes recognise that some of my iTunes library contents are being moved into another HD. I have only some most used music files at the internal HD of my PowerBook G4, and a huge video collection at an external HD, and now it has come time to replace that external HD.
I want to keep some of the files at the internal HD, and some at the external, and just to move those at the external ones into a new external. If I would give the new external HD the same name as the old one had, iTunes would be able to find and play the files normally. However I would like to give new external HD a different name, and that's where the trouble is: iTunes doesn't recognise the file path anymore. I wouldn't like to go through thousands of files individually and to point out where they are now.
In some previous version of iTunes I could do the iteration to new external HD simply by editing the xml copy of the library, and when I deleted the library file, then the library contents were read from xml automatically and new library was created based on the xml, and at that way I could by-pass this problem. However, that trick doesn't work anymore for some reason.
Reason for keeping some of my library contents at the internal and some at the external HD is simply that I don't want to fill my internal HD with seldom used video files and also to avoid prolonged backup times. I want to keep at the internal HD only some most used music files for listening while travel etc. Besides, current internal HD even hasn't nearly enough free space for all my library contents anyway. And I still would like to have the podcasts and some music at the internal one for listening while not connected to the external HD. I would also like to avoid loss of playcounts and other data that would happen if I would simply re-import the files into library from new location.
Suggestions how to solve this, anyone?

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