Multiple Libraries, One on Internal HD, One on External HD

I have a macbook with an 80GB hard drive. I also have it hooked up to two firewire external drives when I have it at home. I have a small iTunes library on the internal drive that I use to listen to music. I also have a huge library on one of the external drives that I used to use on another computer. I would like to be able to use both libraries on my iTunes so that I can access the large one when I'm home and still have the small one when I am away with my laptop. I know about the hold down option to pick different libraries when you startup but is there anyway to just have both libraries picked up so that you can browse both at the same time. I would like to do this so that when I am home I can manage better what I have on both drives. I saw some different shareware but I wasn't sure what was the best for this type of situation.
Thanks.
joe

On your computer go to itunes preferences>advanced, and turn off copy music to library. Now mount the firewire drive, and drag and drop the entire folder of music into itunes. Once its finished you can go back in and turn back on copy music to library. This should add the songs on the external drive into itunes, but any new music will be added into the music folder on the computer. Note however if you make any changes to the external drives music when not connected to itunes it will not know the difference. Also if you ever use the consolidate music option in itunes, it will attempt to copy all of the music from the external drive to the internal.

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