Tips to solve the chaos of the photo before installing Lightroom?

I tried and really liked the free 30 day trial of Lightroom 2 and I intend to buy (or Lightroom 3 when it came out pretty quickly).  The features of fast developing photo were convincing enough, but I am also looking for a solution for my photo chaos management.

My problem is that I have pictures scattered everywhere - on my laptop work, on my Office PC, on external drives, on CD.  And I have duplicates everywhere, but not all of them are duplicated.  I completely lost sight where the photos.   I recently bought a Windows Home Server to perform regular backups of my desktop PC and have move manually loads of photos to the server to make sure that they are in a place course (the folder is automatically duplicated on a separate disk) and share them with other members of the family.

In the future with Lightroom, I plan to import my pictures from the camera via Lightroom on my desktop PC and have Lightroom save a copy of the original to my server for added security.   But I'm not sure of the best way to manage the existing photos.  Are there recommendations on how to prepare the existing chaos for import into Lightroom?  And Lightroom can recognize if exact duplicate photos are imported from different sources?

I would be grateful for advice or pointers for advice on the web or books.

I don't think that there is an easy way to correct this otherwise chaos only through pictures and in deciding what is a duplicate or not. and moving things to a single folder (network storage?), with subfolders. Sometimes, Lightroom can detect duplicates during the import, other times not.

Here's what you don't want to. Do NOT attempt to become more organized by changing your photo, or folder names. Are NOT trying to make your file names and files of the method by which you organize and the method by which you're looking for things. In other words, the location and the name of your files is irrelevant other that you want all in a parent folder.

Using Lightroom tools to organize and do the research as soon as possible. These tools are the keywords, the metadata and collections. These are much more powerful than anything you can do with the names of the folders and folder locations.

I wrote and article about it, you can read it here: http://www.lightroomforums.net/index.php?topic=9444.0

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