Saving Downloads to a different partition

Hi,
Just joined your forum, Hi All.
Can anyone help with this one.
I'm getting very low on space in my C partition. I split my hard drive when installing XP and would like to get iTunes to save downloads into G: my large partition.
I uninstalled iTunes, created My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media in G:
and chose that when asked on a fresh instalation.
It has created iTunes in G: program files but when I fired it up it recreated files in C: My Documents\My Music\iTunes etc etc. and will only download into that.
I can move it after into the G: files I created and hopefully it will read from there afterwards (Don't know yet, I'm downloading a large file at the moment).
Can anyone tell me how to make iTunes download to and only use my G: drive??
I'm not overly technical so please make your answers simple.
Cheers!

Change your itunes preferences > advanced tab
iTunes Media Folder location = somewhere on G:
Any content you add from now on should go to G:
The actual _library database_ file will still be on C:
Here is a long article that talks about that
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/

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