Avoid duplicates when importing with Home Sharing?

I have an iMac which hosts my iTunes library.  I have home sharing turned on so everyone else in the family (both on the iMac and on laptops) play things at home from that library.
But for when I'm not at home, I like to use the import feature to put local copies of music or movies on my macbook pro (local) iTunes library.  The problem I run into is if I inadvertently import a song I already imported once before, I'll end up with two copies of the song.  This happens if I want to just import a whole new playlist that contains songs I happen to already have locally.  Instead of just over-writing the existing file (which is what I want it to do), it imports another copy of the song into the same folder with a "-1" appended to the filename.
Finally the question:  is there a way to make iTunes not create duplicates of songs?  Ideally it the import function should be skipping over songs that already exist, but an alternatively acceptable behavior would be to just over-write the existing files.
Thanks

Are you importing from a camera or the Finder. I don't import from a camera so can't comment on that method but importing from the Finder does give you the prompt.
If you don't get the prompt with either method close iPhoto, delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your Home/Library/Preferences folder, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.

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