Keep copies of portfolio photos around after archival?

I did some quick poking around for an existing thread about this, but didn't quite find what I was looking for.
I archive my photos from my macbook laptop to my RAID array on my desktop (and then later to DVD). I then delete the photos that I just archived from lightroom.
The problem is that some of the photos that I just archived are part of my "portfolio" or "favourites" collections and I want to keep those around (in addition to archiving them).
I didn't really think about this the first few times I went through the archiving process so after archiving then deleting the photos from my laptop I later went back to my portfolio collection and noticed some photos could not be found by lightroom because they were in the set that I had just archived.
My question is what is the easiest way to ensure a copy of those photos in that collection stay around when I go through the archiving process?
I could obviously be very careful when I delete the photos after archiving them and go through each folder that was archived and only delete the ones that I don't want to keep around in my portfolio collection but that would take forever.
Another thought I had was that I could periodically export my portfolio collection as a catalog which would dump out a copy of all the photos in that collection. That sort of works, but then I would have to open that catalog when I wanted to view or work with my favourites and then I lose access to all my presets and such.
I guess the best option I have come up with so far is to dump out the portfolio collection as stated above, then after I have archived and deleted some photos I import all the photos from my portfolio collection back into lightroom. I haven't tried that yet but I suppose it will work. Seems like a bit of a pain.
Any other suggestions out there?

I used that approach for a little while but the problem with that is when you drag a photo from one folder to another in lightroom it moves it rather than copies it. That is fine for the portfolio side, but I still want to archive a copy of the photo with the rest of the photos from that shoot so the portfolio is not the only place the photo exists.
I was originally searching for a way to make a dupliacte of the photo from within lightroom and didn't see one. I could go into finder / explorer and duplicate it and move it into the portfolio folder, but then I have to go back into lightroom and sync the folder to get the new duplicate to show up in lightroom.
Another problem I can potentially see with that is that after I archive the rest of the photos from that shoot and leave just the one photo from that shoot in the portfolio folder I no longer know where that photo came from. If I wanted to go back into my archive and look at the rest of the photos from the shoot I have to reply on some of the information I build up when I create my archives which isn't a huge deal, but it's nicer to be able to just choose "go to folder in library" from the photo in the portfolio collection and have it jump to the original shoot folder in lightroom Even though that may be the only picture in there I will be able to see the original shoot folder and that makes it more obvious as to where I stored that shoot in the archives because it will be in a folder something like "events/20080105/jonnys_birthday" so I know to look in my events archive if I have to dig the rest out.
Sorry for being long winded. Hope that makes sense.

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