How would I merge two Aperture 3 Libraries together loosing duplicates

I came here looking for a solution to trying to manage photos on my mbp and desktop mac.
I do the heavy lifting of my Photo Library, including keywording on the desktop which was a G5 PowerMac with aperture 2 and had a 12" G4 Powerbook which i took out with me to store images on the road. SInce the G4 would not run Aperture I just transfered raw images over to the mac when home. Since then I upgraded the PB to a 13" MBP and upgraded it to Aperture 3 so with no sync i basically just loaded the images into the mbp and did some processing there and transferred most raw masters over to the G5 when home. Due to the recent large scale abandoning of the G5 in Apple software upgrades I have moved over to a Intel Mac Pro for the desktop and so both mahcines are now on Aperture 5.
I would prefer to share the library but it seems this is not possible so I will continue to use the MP as the workhorse and in order to do so will clear out the MBP library to simply act as a mobile mule for images. Before I delete the Photo Library on the MBP I want to try to import its contents into the MP. Most of the images should be duplicates and I only want to make sure any originals only on the MBP are saved to the MP. I do not want to import those files aready imported and am wondering if the library of Aperture wil lrecongise many of these images are duplicates and allow me not to import them or will I have to suck them all in then locate and delete duplicates ( I have more pressing things to do with my time) my MP library is about 300gb and the MBP is 75GB.
Any help with solutions to this wil lno doubt entitle the originator to a place in the heaven of their choice.. thanks and Merry Xmas and a happy new year to all those helping out here.
thanks
PS just to avoid confusion i am running MP on 10.6 and MBP is on 10.8

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