Transfering Projects from a laptop

Good Day
I am running apreture 1.5.
Wondering what is the best way to transfer a project from a laptop to my main Aperture library on my desktop and make sure all the meta data and keywords/ratings remain intact.
What I have been doing is dragging the project from my laptop on to a external hard drive and then importing the project into my desktop main library. Is this the best way. Would this move the masters and not just create referenced files in my main library?
Thanks for the help, Shane

I follow everything said here but have question about afterl the project is imported to the desktop.
The project I imported used managed files on my laptop.
I exported (checking consolidate images), and imported, but when the project was imported to the desktop all files were put in the desktop library. There were no longer any managed files in that project!
I realize I can "relocate masters," but are those relocated masters actually REMOVED from the library by using, or are they merely copied to the new location?
My aim is to keep my library as small as possible.
Thanks
MacPro   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

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