Merging Lr2 legacy catalog with LR3 beta into LR3

My Lr3 beta catalog opened without a problem in Lr3 and was established as the default catalog . My Lr2 legacy catalog was selected thru the by specifying the Lr2 catalog and it was updated successfully to work in LR3. So either catalog can be used in LR3 just by calling for it when launching the application.
But I would like to have a merged catalog so that I can use LR to do multiyear collections ...like my selects from Paris. So I created a new MERGED CATALOG and imported the LR3 beta catalog which worked . Then I repeated the effort with the Lr2 legacy catalog and it bombed after about 10 minutes with no error.
The MERGED CATALOG contained my LR3 .lrcat and I was adding the Lr2 legacy .lrcat . I believe I read that if you have any items in both catalogs it will create an conflict ...like two folders with the same name.
Looking for a way to get around this or at least to easily find the conflict?

I am using a similar process and getting a duplicate photo message and then the process aborts(so you have to watch it happen). I first create new MERGED folder with one of the catalogs..by (1)creating a new catalog and (2)importing from an existing catalog (images are referenced in place) . I can do this with either catalog and get a usable new MERGED catalog.
When I try to import the 2nd catalog ..I get a duplicate photograph message . Unfortunately I don t get a clean way of dealing with it as in your example.
So I believe we have the cause .but the strategy to clean this up looks wicked as I have 50K images in Lr2 and 10K in Lr3 beta. If I can find them I can remove them from LR2 before I attempt to merge. I could also have a problem with duplicate file numbers as I use the original camera generated file number (normally not a problem but a new body will start over so duplicates can occur). Since I can create a new catalog with either LR legacy or Lr3 beta it has to be a conflict between the two.

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