ITunes pointing to multiple file locations. Want to consolidate.

Hello,
I am not sure how I messed this up but..
A couple months ago I got a external drive to house my media (music, movies, etc.) and moved that media to the drive and pointed iTunes to the drive. Well, after review only some of the media files are on the external drive (where ITunes says all the files should be) and some are in the original iTunes folder on my hard drive.
What is the best way to take those media files that are on my computers hard drive and consolidate them with the appropriate media files on the external hard drive?
I am using a iMac with the latest version of iTunes.

Seen this?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2774343/how-do-i-associate-file-types-with-an -iphone-application

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