It's been my experience that when syncing a directory to Dropbox that contains symlinks to other directories, bad things happen, since Dropbox follows the links

It's been my experience that when syncing a directory to Dropbox that contains symlinks to other directories, bad things happen, since Dropbox follows the links instead of copying them. On another machine, I would delete what I thought was just a symlink, and Dropbox would delete the entire linked directory from all machines. Not cool. This has severely limited my Dropbox use, unfortunately. I wish there were an option to copy links instead of following them.