Re-directing folders?

Running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on 27 inch iMac with SSD (256MB) and HDD (1TB).
Hi,
When I moved across to my new iMac last year the migration process initially tried to put all of my files in the newly created user profile on the SSD. I found some advice that suggested I could moved the files to the more spacious HDD and redirect the home folder. I followed that advice and everything has worked okay until recently when I experienced keychain and permission problems.
The Apple advice suggested that my library folders should be located on the SSD and this was why I was having the permissions issues. In the end I created myself a new user profile that doesn't crash the iMac. The new profile is based on the SSD.
I still have the problem of accessing my old data on the HDD and would like to re-direct the pictures, movies, documents and downloads folders etc to the old folders on the HDD. So far I have added my new user profile to the list of users that have read/write access, but I cannot find a way of performing the redirect. The library files are still on the SSD as I was advised. Can anyone help?

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