Managing duplicates

I had some difficulty getting all my images into Lightroom from iPhoto, using third-party tools like PictureSync to try to maintain the meta data. I ended up with some missing photos, and not knowing exactly which ones, I imported everything into a separate folder using the "don't import suspected duplicates" setting. Well, I have quite a few duplicates in my library. And it's a rather laborious task to manually remove them.
I also have some Photo CDs, some photos are archived but others duplicates. I'd like to get it all into my main library... and I'm hoping that perhaps Lightroom 1.3(?) will include better handling for duplicate images. Especially duplicates already present in the library somewhere. In a lot of cases, they have the same filename... though of course there could be the occasional unique images with the same file name (when not all taken with my camera).
Thanks, Nathan.

Check out my reply in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3982400#3982400
Macbook Pro (2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 rpm HD), G5 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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