Moving Music, Photo and Movies folders

I am running out of space on my boot drive for all the media files, Movie, Music and Photos, I currently have loaded. MBP Mid 2009, 8 Gigs of RAM and 500 Gig, HDA. I have archived some of the files to DVD and external drives for what I am not using currently. I have purchased a WD 500 Gig FW800 drive to move the files to.
Is there a way for the the current OS 10.6.6 to have the above the default folders point to the appropriate folders on an external drive and treat them as of they are on the boot drive?
Thank you.

One last question and then I will consider this answered: In iMove 09, how do I tell in where all my projects have been relocated to? I tried the option key on launch and that does not seem to be the answer.
Thank you for your very quick response to my questions.

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