When my old hard drive fritzed out my installed XP, a bolt of fear went deep through my soul. The main reason for that was the 17.8GB of music I have on that drive. Once I realized it was still there, I exhaled again, then decided I would no longer keep my music on my local drive. Seems simple enough; tell iTunes where the music is at and off we go.

Unfortunately, iTunes really -- and I mean really -- wants to keep music locally. Especially when you're actively using it as the client for netcasts, things can get confusing quickly.

This issue no longer bothers me because I found, fell in love with, and useiTLU, or iTunes Library Updater.  Lifehacker has a great how-to article, so I won't duplicate it here.  Just let it be known that I approve of this software.