ITunes music on 2 partitions - need to combine onto larger partition

My wife has an XP machine that has a small (15Gb) C: drive, and a larger (50GB) D: drive. At one time I had set up iTunes (7.5.0.20) to have the library on the D: drive. Those files are still there. At some point in Sept 2006, the iTunes library pointer got changed to the C: drive (c:\documents and settings\username\my documents\my music\iTunes\iTunes Music.
Now everything she buys from the iTunes store or rips ends up on the C: drive, and there's no more room.
I'd like to move the files from the C: drive to the D: drive, and then have iTunes point to the D: drive for the library.
Is there a simple way to do this?
Thanks in advance for any help...

I figured this out on my own, then bought my wife a new iMac this past March, so this is pretty much moot at this point...

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