Burn folder exclusions?

Is it possible to define a burn folder then specifically exclude a folder from it?
Since I don't have Time Machine, I back up to DVD (my iPhoto library on one, everything else on the other).
One folder I've had trouble backing up cleanly is the Documents folder - mainly because of the Microsoft User Data folder placed in there by Office - I don't want that folder there in the first place but there apparently is no solution to get it wholly out of the Documents folder (yes, I can 'alias' it out of there but a burn will still include it and eat up 20MB on the DVD). I have brought this up in the Mac Office forums, but the respondents fail to see my point (if it's not user-generated files, it shouldn't be in Documents in the first place! But I digress...!)
So, I had to pour all my user-created documents into a My Documents folder in ~, alias that back into Documents, and then point the burn folder to My Documents instead.
So, if I can exclude the MUD folder from the burn folder, I can move the content of the My Documents folder back into Documents and eliminate this 'kludge'.

Hi,
I don't know anything about exclusions since I don't use burn folders. But here's something that should help you:
I hate developers that misuse the Documents folder for their app's stuff. As you have noticed Microsoft is one of them. But at least you can move the MUD from ~/Documents to ~/Library/Preferences. It won't get recreated if you do it that way and everything works the same. Office checks both locations for it. Seems like someone at MS thought about this (to my knowledge) undocumented feature. I know that it works for Office 2004 and 2008. I never tried it with v.X though...
Have fun!
Björn

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