Using LR between 2 or more computers

Here's my problem. I've asked numerous times about this and have yet to find an answer that works. I often travel and shoot while traveling, it is in fact what I do most the time. When I get back to my hotel or home I like to work the images in LR. I import to a portable HD and work the images. My settings in LR (1.3.1)are set so as not to write metadata as I work so after working files I select all files and do Ctrl-S (save metadata) and go to bed.
When I arrive at the studio the next day I can easily import the images from the HD, transfer to the server but I don't get any changes that were made. It's as if I had never done them.
What's up with that?
Second: I am leaving for a trip and need to bring with me files that have been first imported into the laptop, transfered to the studio system and now have to come back to the laptop for further refinement. I can't "re-import the images into LR on my laptop because they already exist.
I am used to using a browser. like Bridge and maybe I am expecting too much being that is a database and not a browser. All I am after is for a LR to keep up between systems and not make my life too hard.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

That is a simple way, Don, however the practicality of it limited. The idea of a portable drive is just that, portability. The drive we wherehouse the images in is a 2 terrabyt server, hardly portable.
I've looked at exporting the catalog but my mind goes to mush when I try and it doesn't work.
In the beta version of LR (any beta LR users remember this) there was a thing called a binder. I guess it was the predecessor to the catalog but it offered portability. You could build a binder and move it, all things intact. It's gone now. hmmmmm perhaps it would bode well if the minds at Adobe put it back, or something like it.

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