Two vexing consolidation and library problem

1. About 3 years ago, the "C drive on my computer was just about full. I moved iTunes content to the "D" drive, unfortunately without consolidating. On that computer, all content -- whether purchased or added before or after the move from "C" to "D" -- could be accessed and played equally well.
I just bought a Western Digital NAS, and a second computer. I consolidated the iTunes content from the "D" drive to the NAS. After several hours of pouring over many different library files on both the "C" and "D" drives, I was able to copy the correct library file onto the NAS (the "W" drive) and pointed iTunes 9 on both computers to the correct library file on the "W" driver. All 5,500 items in the library are listed in iTunes. However, no content added to iTunes before I moved the music from the "C" to the "D" drive (on 12/31/06) can be located in iTunes. Attempting to locate that content manually on the computer where the music was stored on the "D" drive will, in fact, locate the content on the "D" drive of that computer. Attempting to locate that content manually on the new computer will, in fact, find it on the NAS (the "W" drive)
I still have on the old computer a number of old "library" files. A few have create dates of 12/31/06, the day I did the move. Some have earlier creation dates.
So, how can I get the necessary information concerning the pre-move content to the NAS ("W" drive) so that iTunes will recognize and play that content automatically like all of the content that post-dates 12/31/06?
2. As noted above, I have consolidated files to the "W" drive, and pointed iTunes 9 to the library on the "W" drive. However, after exiting iTunes, and then re-entering, the program is forgetting that I have specified the "W" drive and the associated library as the place for content. I have indeed specified "W" as the place where iTunes content is located, in the "preferences" and "advanced" pane.
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Pondini wrote:
davidpsummers wrote:
Also, I had trouble deleting the backups of those files and folders in time machine. I can delete most of it. But for one folder (and all the folders in which it resides in the hierarchy) I can't deleted it. I tell it to delete backups of that folder (or folders it is in), I put in the password, and goes "ding". But nothing disappears...
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And now I'm getting an error in time machine. "Files can't be copied onto the backup disk because it appears to be "read only"". I do get info on the disk, and my account has Read & Write privleges, but it say "You can only read" above that".
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I'm doing the deletion through Time Machine (I go into Time Machine, find the folder in the backup, and ask Time machine to delete all backups of that folder).
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