Using an existing iTunes library on a removable disk

My laptop died recently and I'm still waiting for it to be repaired. While I'm waiting I've removed the hard disk and put it in an external USB-IDE case so I can access my files.
My question is: can I use the iTunes library on my laptop hard disk with iTunes on another PC?
One concern is that the iTunes library was created on drive C: but it now appears on my office PC as F:, will this confuse iTunes or does it use relative paths?
I'd really rather use this existing library rather than have to copy the files across (I've seen the documentation on this site about how to do that) and then copy back when my laptop is fixed.
60 GB iPod 5G   Windows XP Pro  

See Here  >  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
And Here...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4083591?tstart=0

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