Merging catalogs on Laptop and Desktop in LR 3

Had a look around but can't find a straightforward guide to what must be a common request now photographers like myslef are expected to take laptops out on the road and email/burn/upload the best shots there and then and go back and work on all the images to later supply a cd etc.
I have LR 3 running on both my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro, my main work catalog is on the desktop Mac Pro, upgraded from LR 1.4.
I now have a few jobs on my laptop where I have picked the best shots for emailing from location, and want to bring these shoots back into my main Desktop catalog.
I give each job a job number X1234, X1235 etc and they are stored in individual folders on the hard drive of either the laptop or desktop.
What I've done in the past is to drag the flder over to the desktop and then import the images from the newly dragged folder.
Would the best way for me be to 'Import from Catalog' in the desktop LR menu and then chose 'Copy new photos to a new location and import' in the dialog?
Would this keep editing and ratings and metadata eg captions for the few 'picks' I have chosen and rated and edited out in the field, or is there another step to it?
Thanks
Paul 'Spike' Reddington
www.spikephoto.com

I came looking for the same help.  I'm just finishing up a month long shoot in Yellowstone/Glacier/Montana (plus one wedding, to boot).  I'm finally somewhat back to civilization (hotel room w/ internet), and am trying to figure out the best way to get my images on my home computer with all the editing/organization/metadata additions intact when I get home.  I have nearly 5,000 .dngs to move from the laptop to the main computer.  I've backed them up all during the trip on an external HD.  From what I gather, the way to get them over to the home computer is backup using "export as catalog" option to the external HD (including "negatives"), connect the external HD to the home computer and import from catalog (moving files) into the home computer.  To be safe, I've saved all metadata to the files before exporting.
Thanks for the help.  Lightroom (and CS5) help is pretty lame--especailly when you're in a tent in the Beartooth Wilderness.

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