ITunes Library: Movies and Music in Different Places

Hey all:
I've been wanting to move my movies in iTunes to an external harddrive simply because they take up so much space, but I like having iTunes "manage" my files so that if I change the name of a song, it will change the file name as well, etc. Is there a way to move my movies to the harddrive but leave my music where it is and still have iTunes read everything ok? I tried just moving one of the files, but since it's a "digital copy" downloaded from the iTunes store, iTunes won't read it until I put it back in the original "movies" folder within the "iTunes>Music" folder.
Thanks.

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If iTunes doesn't find the iTunes Music folder at startup, it will set it to the default location. iTunes does so, because it has to know a location where to store imported music.
To prevent this, always connect your ext. HD before running iTunes.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=318759
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If you select an item in your iTunes library and press the Delete button, it asks for confirmation thus:
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