Sync-ing songs / libraries

I feel really stupid asking this, mostly because it owes up to poor management on my part but...
I've got my home computer, my office computer, and my traveling laptop. They all started off with an identical library of songs. Since then I've added songs to each, separately. Stupid, I know, but here I am.
Can anyone suggest a good, streamlined method of sync-ing this all up so I've got one "great, grand" music library that holds just one copy of everything?
If I can get to this state, I'll manage it better in the future. Right now there are 3000 music files, give or take, depending on the unit - so going through and doing it by line item is prohibitive. No one is any closer than another. I tried just a straight import, but ended up with many duplicates - which again equals a lot of weeding out.
Thanks,
Chad

CHange the ipod setting to manual sync mode on the desktop, then take it over to the laptop.
Or copy the movie file from your laptop to the desktop and just synce like normal.
Here is an article on auto vs. manual sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351?viewlocale=en_US

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See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
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