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chris,
as long as your computer can hold the two drives, it's fairly straightforward. Once you've got the two hard drives installed, then you can simply insert the OS disk that came with your computer, or hold down Command - R while powering on if you're running lion (probably), and select whichever of the two drives you want to install the OS on.
I'm assuming you want to run the OS off the SSD and have the stuff on the large HDD to improve performance and whatnot?
two things. 1, I'd recommend checking the warranty status of your machine (if it's a mac), because fooling around with the internals of macs will potentially void any warranty you have, if only for the internal hardware you're removing/changing.
2, have a back up of your stuff, on a third, separate drive. This would allow you to do a clean install of the OS on the SSD, and then wipe all the unnecessary OS information off the old HDD, then transfer the files and folders back across.
As for itunes and other stuff, as long as itunes knows where to look for your library, it doesn't matter where it is. It could be on the same drive as the application, or on a networked drive, usb stick, etc.