Using two hard drives - one external and one internal

As my macbook pro only has 100 gig HD I keep my most recent photos on that HD and edit the photos when I have the time on travel. I then have a 500gig external firewire drive with older photos. My question is two fold
1. Do I have to keep re-setting the preference for the startup library to switch between the two or can I see both at the same time?
2. At this point I can only see one library at the time, how then can I move my current images into the external drive, or asked another way, how can I merge the two libraries?
I receive version 2.0 today, but I can't think I am the only one with this issue, nevertheless, I can't find much about the topic.
Thanks for your help

The biggest reason I wanted to do it was that for 2007 I took all my photos and put them in a project by month - so I have 12 project folders taking up all this space. Whereas, my older years, going back to 2002, they are in folders for each month in a project for the year. I did this when I bought aperture and moved my files over from Nikon View. All my other years where on my other library and my 2007 was on my library on the computer. So essentially I'd like to collapse the 2007 projects into one main area.
Make sense?
Thanks for al your help. What a great resource.

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