Transporting Only Those Files in My Library

Hello,
Soon I am leaving the country for three weeks. I'll be taking my 80g iPod, but would like to take along the music files on a portable HD for backup. The portable HD is 120g and I have a Music Folder that's 180g. Is there a simple way to copy only the files that I have on my iPod onto the HD?
I tried opening Music in my iTunes browser, selecting a few hundred titles, and dragging them to the HD window as a test. The files did copy over, but most of them got dislodged from their Artist and/or Album folders along the way. This is not ideal, as I'd like to have them organized on the portable HD just as they are in the Music Folder at home--just not so many of 'em.
Any help? Thanks in advance.

Well, there may be a simpler way, but my jerry-rigged solution was:
On my Mac, I exported all of the playlists that I'm going to take with me into a folder created for that purpose.
I created a new library on the portable HD and a folder there to use as its Music Folder.
With "Copy files to Music Folder when adding to library" checked, I imported the playlists from Step 1 into the new library.
Now my portable HD has a Music Folder with only the files I want to take with me in it, and a library that I can use if necessary with my laptop while traveling. Not all that elegant, but simpler than doing the whole copying job album by album.
I will leave this question "unanswered" in case anybody wants to offer a simpler solution.

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