OS 10.5 - Why does 'Copy' overwrite files on my External HD? Please read...

*Please read this before answering...*
So here is the issue.
When I copy a folder(s) to my external HD, instead of adding the new files to the existing folder(s), it overwrites them. Let me give an example (below):
Lets say I have a folder on my Laptop (Intel MackBook 2.2) named "Bob", and it contains a file named "test_1.txt. Then I have a folder on the external HD also named "Bob", with files "test_2.txt" and "test_3.txt". If I copy the folder from the laptop to the external HD, test_2 and test_3 are gone, and only test_1 is there...
I am new to Mac (very new), but on a Windows (any version) based machine, lets say I have the same setup, and do the same copy. In that case, the folder "Bob" is of course on the external HD, but I then have test_1, test_2, and test_3 in the folder.
It's like in a Windows environment, it merges those folders, so the files in the folder on the external HD stay put, and it adds the new ones from the laptop to the folder. In a Mac environment, it seems as though it deletes the folder on the external HD, then copies the one from the laptop.
Now here is the problem, and why I am so worried about this...
I have a folder called "Pics" on the laptop and the external HD. As I pull pics from my camera, download them, etc, they go into the many folders under the main pics folder on the laptop. I then copy it to the external HD later. In Windows, I am essentially just adding these pics to all the already full folders under pics on the external HD. I don't keep them all on the laptop because there are to many, so they just update when I do this, and there are that many more in the folders on the ex HD. If I do this same process in the Mac OS, it will delete all the folders on my ex HD, then replace them w/ these. I, in-turn, will loose many gb's of pics that weren't on the laptop. I do the same w/ a software folder, documents, and a few others.
There are too many for me to just add them folder by folder, so I really need a way to make this act like it does on a Windows comp.
I have asked a bunch of my Mac friends, and they have no idea, so any help is much, MUCH appreciated!
Thanks

You can set the preference to only add new files, and never delete anything. It WILL over-write a specific file with a newer version (and that means FILE, not folder), but even that can be changed by doing an "Archive"--you check the box to "Archive when replacing existing files" and you can even tell it how many duplicates to keep, and whether to purge dupes after a certain amount of time. It is a very flexible program.
I basically use it to keep my backup drive in sync with my startup drive, but without deleting anything from the backup. Ever. Thus my Pictures folder has many sub-folders, and they have sub-folders too, with things getting added to them. Chronosync adds the new files to the sub-folders, adds new folders to the basic Pictures folder, and if I toss some things from the startup drive, they remain on the backup drive.
Thus, if the startup drive has /Pictures/Summer08/file2 file4 file5, and the backup drive has /Pictures/Summer08/file1 file2 file3, after I sync it will still have files 1-3, plus files 4 and 5. If I had updated file2 on the startup drive, the updated version will over-write the original on the backup drive, unless I used the Archive option.
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