Trouble importing since changing iTunes folder destination

Hi,
I have asked everyone I know about this problem and nobody seems to know what to do, please help...
I previously ran iTunes on my PC Laptop using an external hard drive to store all my music on and thus had the itunes music folder destination set to the hard drive.
Since the laptop died, I now have a macbook and got a new ipod to start over. The external hard drive with all my music works ok with the macbook.
I initially imported a couple of CDs into my itunes straight onto the macbook when the ext drive was playing up and i was desperate for some music for my ipod, once i got the hard drive working again i hooked it up and changed the itunes music destination folder to the hard drive and left it transferring my entire library back into itunes overnight.
This worked fine but now itunes wont let me import cds with the destination set to the hard drive (yes, the hard drive is on and connected when attempting this).
Sorry this is such an essay but i didnt know how else to explain the problem.
Anyone have any ideas? I am becoming desperate.
Thanks
Tom

Change the location of the library in the Preferences. This tells iTunes where new music that you add will go, but it won't move your existing music there.
Back in iTunes, use the Consolidate Library option. This will copy all the music currently in iTunes to the new Library location, along with organizing it and renaming it and such. Once this is done, you can check that the music is there, and then delete the old location.
Few things:
-There's a couple of files that live in My Music\iTunes. These are an ITL and an XML file. These cannot be moved. They contain all the information about what's in your iTunes library.
-If you still want to move them, use TweakUI to change the location of your My Music folder to somewhere that won't get copied to the server. Then move/copy the library files to that new location.

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