Move main iTunes library to a different XP user /same computer

I have researched deeply the discussion board and haven't found an answer to this specific question: I want to move the existing iTunes library (currently at: C:/Documents and Settings/+user 2+/My Documents/My Music/iTunes
TO
C:/Documents and Settings/HP_Administrator/My Documents/My Music/iTunes
I do NOT want a shared library, due to the inherent restrictions on having such and because I do not NEED to share the library. Four years ago, my pre-teen daughter and I got iPods and I put the library in her user folder so that she could access it (Mine is password protected). She now has her own computer and never uses the family one. She syncs her iPod with her own computer. I like to listen to my music while working on the computer, but I have to log in to her XP name to play music and it is nerve wracking to not be able to change it without logging off my name, going into hers, switching albums (or whatever), logging out of hers, logging back into mine. ACHHHHH!!
I am a bit dusty in my computer programming skills, but shouldn't I simply be able to go into DOS and change the path of the library? I don't want to mess anything up.
NOTE: I do currently have a couple of songs (less than 10) in my HP_Administrator iTunes library (added before I figured out that XP does not like me to log into iTunes with more than one user name....hence leaving everything on my daughters log in name). I am more than willing to delete everything there if necessary.
Thanks for the help!
You guys are brilliant!

Log in to your admin account.
Quit iTunes.
Drag C:/Documents and Settings/HP_Administrator/My Documents/My Music/iTunes folder to the desktop.
Move C:/Documents and Settings/+user 2+/My Documents/My Music/iTunes folder to C:/Documents and Settings/HP_Administrator/My Documents/My Music/.
Start iTunes. Should have the library except for the music you had in the admin iTunes.
File -> Add folder to library and select the *iTunes music folder* in the iTunes folder on the desktop.
Now you can delete the iTunes folder on the desktop.

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