Moving content media of FCP

I installed FCP Studio 2 on my MBP and placed much of the media content on an external firewire drive to avoid filling up my hard drive. I did keep the livetype media on the hd so that I can work with it even when my external drive is not connected.
It all works fine.
Now I am getting a new external drive that is bigger and uses firewire 800 and I would like to transfer the media content on my current external hd to the new one.
Can I just copy it over and expect that FCP will be able to access it without problems with the new drive connected?
Will i need to reinstall the content media to the new external drive for FCP to be able to use it without peoblems?
The installation took about 2 1/2 hours, so I would rather not have to do that again, but I don't want to introduce any instability to the system or the program.
Is it normal for a full install of FCP Studio 2 to take that long or should I be concerned? The program currently has about 15 gigs installed on my hd and another 38 gigs of content media installed on my external drive.
Thanks for any advice.

I believe that that content is used primarily by Motion and DVD Studio.
Not too sure about Motion, but the browser in Motion is easy to point to a sepcific location where the new files should be.
As far as DVD Studio goes, When I have manually moved the templates, etc, I have had to add them manually to the palette, in which case they appear under the "custom" tabs instead of the "apple tabs. In previous versions, there was a trick that involved putting an alias in the default location to the new location for the folder of assets, but I don't know if this still works.
Sorry I can't be more help on this one.

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