Organising iTunes on D: drive

Hi,
I moved iTunes to the D: partition on my computer last year using excellent edvice from this discussion. I'm currently "tidying up" my computer and have realised that while all of my music is now on D: and lots of other iTunes bits and pieces too, there are still some folders and files on C: These are:
Folder - Album Artwork
Folder - iPod games (duplicated in D:)
Folder - iTunes media
Folder - Mobile applications
iTunes database files - Library extras, Library genius, Library
XML document - Music library
As mentioed, the only one of these files that seems to be duplicated in D; are the games. I also got an iPhone last week which may have upset things a little. Although everything works fine, I would like to have everything music and iTunes related in D: Could anyone advise if this is feasible and if so, how I should do it. I am backing up my computer now, just in case anything goes horribly wrong!
Thanks!!!

I assume that your drive D: is external. One important thing you need to do is make sure that your drive D: is "ready" before you start iTunes. It must be ready to read. If it isn't, when iTunes looks for it and doesn't find it, it will then use the C: drive.

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