Move Library from External to External?

Hello
I have a Macbook Pro. I keep the music I listen to most on my internal drive and much of the CDs that I don't listen to very often on an external drive. I recently ran out of space on my original drive (Thanks Time Machine!) and now want to move my External Drive library to my new 500GB external drive.
Simply moving them doesn't change the location in iTunes. Is there an easy way to do this? I do not want to "consolidate" as it shows in the documents from Apple. That will move my internal drive music to the external and defeat the purpose of what I am trying to accomplish.
Thanks in advance.

Hi these 2 articles may help. I personally have had experience in doing it the wrong way. That's why I have included the second article, because when you do it the wrong way itunes "loses" all your songs. Hopefully the first article will preclude the need for the second.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301895
Cheers,
Liane

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