Synchronizing folders with external drives

I just upgraded to Lightroom 2 and I'm having trouble following the file management workflow that I used to use with Lightroom 1. Basically what I did before was:
Import photos to either my internal hard drive or to my external Lightroom drive, depending on whether I was at my desk or out and about. If I imported them to my internal drive, I'd eventually want to get them onto my external drive when I get to my desk.
Run a shell script that rsyncs the internal drive photos to the exact same structure on the external drive. This effectively merges what I had on my internal drive into my filesystem on my external drive.
Then I'd delete my folders from my internal drive, and when Lightroom couldn't find the folders, I'd do the Find Missing Folder thing and point it at the external drive. It would realize that I have selected a folder that was already in Lightroom, so it basically just re-pointed the missing files that were just copied and everything worked.
Unfortunately if I try this with Lightroom 2, it says "The selected folder or a folder it contains is already in Lightroom." when I try to locate the missing folder. And while it is quite true that the folder is already in Lightroom, that folder contains all the images from the deleted folder that I just copied over. I'm stuck and I basically have ~200 images from various dates that have been interspersed in my Lightroom drive, but Lightroom has no idea that they're there. I tried running Synchronize Folders on it, but that just made it worse, since it didn't realize the files were duplicates and so now I have two copies of my images. The old copies are still broken, but they have all my metadata and adjustments.
Here's a small illustration of what's going on:
Before:
~/Lightroom2009
1234.dng
9876.dng
/Volumes/Lightroom2009
4567.dng
5555.dng
After:
~/Lightroomempty
/Volumes/Lightroom2009
1234.dng
4567.dng
5555.dng
9876.dng
Does anybody have a similar workflow to me that actually works?
Thanks,
Brandon

Hi CPMTECH,
To configure the Windows Time Service on first forest root domain controller
Log on to the domain controller.
Type the following command to display the time difference between the local computer and a target computer, and then press ENTER:
w32tm /stripchart /computer:target/samples:1/dataonly
Where target specifies the DNS name or IP address of the NTP server that you are comparing the local computer's time against, such as time.windows.com and 1 specifies the number of time samples that will be returned from the target computer. In this example, only one sample will be returned to test basic NTP communication.
Open UDP port 123 for outgoing traffic if needed.
Open UDP port 123 (or a different port you have selected) for incoming NTP traffic.
Type the following command to configure the PDC emulator and then press ENTER:
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:peers /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update
Peers specifies the list of DNS names and/or IP addresses of the NTP time source that the PDC emulator synchronizes from. For example, you can specify time.windows.com. When specifying multiple peers, use a space as the delimiter and enclose them in quotation marks.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784929(WS.10).aspx
Skip step 2 complete step 5 first then step 2.
Checkout if this work.
Hope you find the info useful

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