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Duplicate Files and folder merging

I've searched a bit around this forum and others, and not found particularly useful information on merging and otherwise distilling duplicate files in Leopard and possibly Windows. In particular I have nested folders on two macs and a win xp machine that I would like to merge and synchronize. Currently I'm syncing the macs with Chronosync, but I'd like to merge the data from the windows machine and sync all three ideally. I could conceivably de-nest everything using some scripting to handle obvious duplicates, and then give everything a new hierarchy once cleaned up. But I'd like to explore a more eloquent solution as I value my time and efficiency somewhat more...

Is there anybody who has used Araxis Merge and has an opinion to share? http://www.araxis.com/merge_mac/topic_features.html

Is there anybody who has used DupeGuru and has an opinion to share? http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/

Can Merlin's beloved Pathfinder handle duplicate finding and or folder merging with files and folders containing duplicates in differing trees?

Can Chronosync do something along these lines that I've missed?

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