Dealing with a ton of photos. Can you find/search for duplicates??

Hi,
I am trying to help my parents with merging photos from 5 different computers. They have several old pc's and now two new macs. Unfortunately they have about 10+ years of photos on these computers and many of the photos are duplicates. Virtually every photo is a long string of digits followed by .jpg. They are contained within about 400+ folders that quite frankly make little sense. I have copied all the photos from each computer onto one external hard drive.
Is there a way to search for duplicates within that many folders? Unfortunately, some of the cameras they used didn't have the correct date set and it is impossible to figure out when the photos were taken! Also they copied many photos into Iphoto and in the process made additional copies.
Augh!
Thanks for any help!
Gary

Hello Gary:
I rarely post +"me too"+ comments, but let me echo Matt's suggestion. I used duplicate annihilator with quite a bit of success myself when I imported a library from another computer.
Barry

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