Transfering a playlist to external harddrive

Several months ago I moved my entire iTunes folder to an external harddrive. For a few weeks I was without the drive, though, so the new songs I imported got saved to my hard drive. To make things easier, I put all of these new songs in one playlist.
How can I just transfer the one playlist over to the external harddrive? I don't want to have to go through the procedure of moving the entire database again, as wouldn't that create duplicate copies of the files?
Thanks!

Well, I went ahead and just copied folders from my C Drive and pasted them into the respective artist folders in the external drive. So, that's taken care of.
My question NOW is, how can I change it so that iTunes goes to the external drive to play these tracks now, rather than playing them off the C drive? I figure I could just delete them off the C drive, and then when iTunes tries to find the file, direct it to the external drive? Or is there a way you can do this without deleting the C drive file (you know...just in case!)?

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