Merge external + internal drive

Hi,
All my iTunes files are on an external drive. Since installing iTunes 9, the default location has been reset to my local (empty) Music folder without me noticing. Since then, all files I added or downloaded (about 20Gb) are placed on my internal drive in a new iTunes Media folder.
iTunes itself seems to have no difficulty in using both locations.
But I want to move these new files to my external drive again. I can add them again to iTunes, but then I'll probably wind up with doubles, no? I want to merge the files of my 2 iTunes Media folders and tell iTunes it's all in one location again.
Any suggestions?

+Okay - so the key is not to drag the other library onto the hard disk but just to add the library so that iTunes is "aware" of the library on the external. Then I can "consolidate."+
no. you don't add the library, you add the media files.
you can either drag the folder with the media (songs, movies, tv shows) from the external into the iTunes window on your new Mac, or you use the +add file+ from the +file menu+ in iTunes
actually, in your situation you don't need to consolidate at all. given enough HD space on your new Mac, adding the media from the external HD will do the job.
as for consolidating: lets assume you have 2 external 500 GB drives. one holds all your movies, the other all your songs. your iTunes is aware that movies are located on drive (a) and songs on drive (b).
lets say you are sick of having 2 drives and go buy a new 2 TB drive. here's when you point iTunes to the new 2 TB drive and ask it to consolidate the media from the 2 500 GB drives to the new 2 TB drive.

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