Moved library - how to correct file locations in playlists

I copied my library off my HD to an external HD because the library is pretty large, about 120gb. I have all my music in playlists, and I back up my playlist library regularly just to be safe. I have not deleted my original library off my HD just yet to be safe that everything made it over.
My question is: My playlists still show all my songs as located on my internal HD. How do I get them all updated to show that the files are located on the external HD instead? I want to delete the original library off the internal HD to make more space. I changed the library location in the Settings -> Advanced tab under Preferences and iTunes now recognizes that that is where the library is.
I tested all of this by deleting a song from a playlist in its folder on the internal HD to see if iTunes would relocate it on the external HD. It did not. It prompted me to locate it instead.
I tried importing my library again, thinking that might fix it. Instead, all my playlists are now duplicated. And the songs in both versions of any playlists both still show the songs as being on the original internal HD, not the external.
Thanks.

Traditionally, if you want your download to go to a different folder than the default folder you would control-click on the link in Safari and select something like "Download Linked File As..."
Some websites are written in such a way as to disable that functionality.
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