Transferred library to external hard drive, iPod won't recognize

2 problems:
1. My Shuffle won't accept songs from iTunes now that's in on my external hard drive.
2. When I hook up my regular iPod, it says something to the effect of "a new library has been detected, do I want to import?" Do I?

didn't know about the 'Consolidate Library' step.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305451
hope this will help others.

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