Visteon,
this certainly sounds feasable - one thing I did miss out (which I didn't think was relevant but could be now) is that the first HD I got was faulty...would let me copy stuff to it but then not play it at all, then couldn't cut and paste off the drive, or reformat it!! (luckily it would let me copy and paste and then delete!!!). Just have to say this was replaced by eBuyer very easily and at no cost to me! But in all the shananigans that went on it might well have got corrupted! (it was the same set of files that got copied to the old HD and wouldn't play at all, that have now been copied to the new one and take an age to play!)
But...I can backup the database file no problem, but what do you mean by 'delete them' and 'they will be recreated' ?? I've never looked inside this database file so it might be obvious (!) but could you just expand a bit
Cheers
Phil