Itunes Library Request: Apple, Is This Too Much To Ask??

Yes, I know there are other threads on the subject of Library placement, etc. But they tend to digress, and I believe my question is very simple. Here goes:
All of my music is presently on an external USB/FW drive (a 75gb partition of a 320gb drive, properly partitioned formatted as "MSDOS" with XP and OS X, so that OS X can read/write).
I want to establish my INITIAL iTunes Music Library on this external drive. iTunes v7.3(54) is installed -- BUT with no library yet. I also don't yet have either of the iTunes "library files,".itl or .xml".
All I want is to make this 15-20gb of music on the external drive become my iTunes library. And I am willing to have to connect the external in order to play the music.
Do I have to do perform any iTunes "gymnastics" to do this? I'm perfectly willing to create a new folder on the Ext Drive if iTune HAS to move the files (???) and let the files "moooove". But this can't be hard, can it??
Any help?
Many thanks in advance,
Ken S

What you need to do is delete the "iTunes" folder in
your Music directory in Home, then create the
"iTunes" folder on your external drive.
Now, make an alias of the "iTunes" folder on the
external drive, and copy it to the "Music" folder
under you Home directory. Voila.
WebCrasher-
First, THANK YOU! Frustrated when my question sat idle for two days, my subsequent sarcastic post lacked civility. But you still have the class to offer a serious technical response to my question (I fully expected to be flamed for my last post). Appeciated.
I'd just about decided to create the iTunes Music folder on the external drive, but hadn't considered placing an alias to the external data in a local folder (which I assume I would create after iTunes added all the music to its library, having first deleted the same folder?).
Two questions on your proposed solution:
1. Would I then have to re-SET my library location to my home folder (under Preferences|Advanced->SET)? And if so, would I also then have to "consolidate" (i.e., pretend to combine the library) using "Advanced|Consolidate Library" (from the GUI menu)? Can iTunes really be happy adding music, etc. to a "pseudo-Library" (the aliased folder) in my home directory?
and
2. Is there a significant advantage to this technique over simply letting iTunes manage it's Library on the external drive, as long as its two DB files - .itl and .xml - remain local? In either case I'd have to have the USB/FW external drive connected to the PowerBook to use iTunes, correct?
TIA,
Ken S

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