Data Merge from Multiple image folders

I'm on a MAC running CS3 and trying import several thousand images via DataMerge that are all housed in different folders.
It is very difficult to move all the images to a single folder where the Tab Delimited File lives, which I understand is how I'm supposed to use DataMerge.
Does anyone know who to specify the proper path on a MAC that will recognize my each of my folders and files within? I tried every configuration I can think of and nothing is working.
for example here are just a few of what I've tried. Nothing works but logic would say that it should am I wrong?
Mike:Users:Desktop:Images:A:01.jpg
Users:Desktop:Images:A:01.jpg
:Mike:Users:Desktop:Images:A:01.jpg
../Mike:Users:Desktop:Images:A:01.jpg
Mike/Users/Desktop/Images/A/01.jpg
~Mike:Users:Desktop:Images:A:01.jpg
~Users:Desktop:Images:A:01.jpg
~Users/Desktop/Images/A/01.jpg
HELP! Please

@ Peter thanks for your help.
I saw some tutorial on youtube that said the file had to be in the images folder and then everything I tried seemed to echo that.
I also tried the copy path from InDesign from a placed image to no avail. Then the get info (mac trick) from the finder to get the path. also to no avail.
I even followed Adobe's instructions on the their site
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs2at_datamerge.html
But what I finally found is that the Tab Delimited file first has to be relative to the filepath specified.
ie.
if my images are located in
/Mac HD/Users/Mike/Images/Art/Round1/01.jpg
/Mac HD/Users/Mike/Images/Art/Round1/02.jpg
etc.
and my text file lives in the Art folder. All I have to specify the path name from Round1 onwards, not back to the root level as I thought.
so
/Round1/01.jpg
/Round1/02.jpg
is all I need to include in the text file

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