Syncing Laptop and Desktop

Apologies if this is the wrong forum but I am trying to find a good place to post this.
I am looking for some advice on how to sync files and databases (iPhoto and other) between my 250GB laptop and my 500GB desktop. Right now, with the exception of my email which is synced via IMAP the data is /totally/ segregated. As a for instance, I am planning on moving forward with iPhoto Library Manager to keep the same iPhoto Database on both machines at the same time. The plan is to import photos into iPhoto only from the desktop, however, it is unclear to me how to handle the situation when I organize images on the iPhoto Database on the laptop and then want this to be updated on the laptop. Perhaps iPhoto Library Manager will take care of this.
Does anyone know where to go to find someone with experience in handling the OTHER information that one may need to work on on two Machines? I've had suggestions to use iDisk but in some cases the information that needs to be synced is in the 100 - 200 GB range. Is there softare that can handle this? Does it work via an Ethernet connection and start automatically like Time Machine does for my laptop when I connect via USB to the external drive (so far this seems extremely convenient for backing up the laptop...).
At the moment I am trying to decide whether I should spend money to try spend some money on a server of some kind or if I should focus on upgrading the HD on the laptop to 500GB to match the desktop.
I think I am moving more and more to the idea that I need to purchase a large size external drive and backup the data (perhaps using Time Machine on both the laptop and the desktop?) to this external drive with Ethernet connections to both machines. However, while this would make the data accessible from both machines it is unclear to me to what extent I can /sync/ data in this manner.
Anybody got any good advice on where to start with this?
TIA
Jonathan

You are, in fact, posting in wildly the wrong area.
That being said you will need some third system to make this work. If you have access to the late model OS X Server machine you want to look into Portable Home Directories. This will sync the account on whatever computer you're working on to the server account on login and log out.
A general word of warning - whatever system you decide to use needs to be on good solid GigE networking for the sizes you're talking about. If you're looking at over the network speeds any standard internet "high speed" connection will probably not be up to this kind of work - especially if your upload speed is capped.
Good luck,
=Tod

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