Synchronizing user data between Laptop and Desktop

We have a Macbook and an iMac. While my kids and wife went to visit the Grandparanets I lent them my Macbook, used SuperDuper to create a copy of my Laptop's drive and booted it on the iMac (ok, that is pretty cool!).
All worked very well and now they are returning and I need to merge the information on the Macbook itself and the SuperDuper drive I have been using on the iMac.
There are multiple user accounts on each and all that was really added on the Macbook would be photos and movies and iTunes music one 3 of the accounts.
Is there an easy way to sync user accounts between two computers? I am quite familiar with .mac and syncing wha I would call preferences. It cannot handle stuff like synching iTunes, iPhoto or iMovie though.
Appreciate any suggestions
JIm

Well ... here is what I ended up doing. Hope it helps someone
Once the laptop came home:
1. I made a SuperDuper image just in case (to another Firewire drive partition)
2. Then I logged into the user accounts on each and used Backup to backup Home, iLife ... for each user on the laptop that logged in while they were gone (I asked them)
3. Then I used SuperDuper to overwrite the hard drive on the laptop using the SuperDuper image on the Firewire drive.
4. Then I logged into each account on the laptop where I backuped up data and restored it.
It took a little while but everyone is happy and has their data

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