Need to store songs on external drive

I have a huge problem, I have hardly any space (562 MB available on my harddrive) on my computer to do anything (burn cd's, import pictures, etc.). I purchased a 250GB external drive and want to know if I can move the WHOLE iTunes application and all the songs to the external drive so I can free up a ton of space on my computer.
Can I run iTunes solely from the external drive?
How do I do this?
Thanks!

Open a new folder on your 250GB-disc and copy your Music into it. But only the Music!
You open iTunes, preferences, go to Additional (Right side of "Store").
Change the place of the iTunes Library and choose the one, where you just copied the music in.
Close iTunes and reopen it.
That is what I did. But I had to manually appoint every single song in iTunes, which iTunes didn´t find. That was boring, took a while, but it worked.
Hope, you find an easier solution.
Stephan

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So, I still need a little help with this. If I have this folder structure on my internal drive and 1/2 of those images are imported into Aperture (but referenced), and I use the "Relocate" feature, how will they be moved? Will it take the folders to the external or just the images, leaving the folders on the internal drive?
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