After some recent Dropbox problems I've been having (not the first unfortunately) I added an entry on the Dropbox wiki explaining what happens if you are so impertinent as to add directories containing symbolic links to your Dropbox folder:
One day maybe we'll have something with the correctness and robustness of Unison and the convenience of Dropbox. People will dance in the streets. I think Dropbox can be that solution if they work at it.
UPDATE - these issues are explained at greater length in this post:
http://aurelio.net/articles/dropbox-symlinks.html
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