Problems with iTunes on multiple drives

I have about half of my music on my c: drive and the other half on my d: drive. iTunes runs from the c: drive and has no problem locating that music, however it never can find the music on the d: drive. I would just move all the music over, however I do not have the room for it on my c: drive. I have a 4gb jump drive that also has music on it. Is there anyway to get iTunes to read all three locations for music without having to have the music files on one drive? Thanks for the help in advance.

When you say "read all three locations for music be more specific". The jump drive is the hardest one to do because it is not conistently mounted with the same drive letter. Unforantly ITUNES has not added the future to monitor changes in a folder and auto update so each time you add music to folder you have to add that folder to itunes. But once the music is loaded as long as you do not unplug the drive or move the music ITUNES will always remember its location.

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modulatetome,
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304447
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