Synchronizing Adobe Lightroom on two computers??

Hi,
I use 2 computers - a 17" Macbook Pro set up as a desktop, and a 13" Macbook as a laptop. Is there a way of synchronizing Lightroom on both of these machines? I'd like to be able to edit photographs on one or the other and have it mirror the work onto the other. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Many thanks for any input!
Nigel

No easy way to do this; it's export from one machine and import to the other.
This isn't a Mac OS X question, though -- you'd probably have better luck asking on Adobe's Lightroom forums.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom

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