After archiving and saving, still re-encodes everything

G'day. All I want to do is be able to save a finished product, after I have burned a couple of DVD's, then later reopen the project and just burn another disk. Every method I have used to do this; save, archive, .dmg'd ; when I reopen the project ( and not changing ANYTHING ) and go to Burn, iDVD re-encodes everything all over again. Is there a way shy of just telling Toast to duplicate an already burned DVD to have iDVD just use the already saved, or archived or dmg'd and not re-encode the works? I just have to be missing something..
Thanks in advance
Al

You can also copy previously burned iDVD discs with Disk Utility...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
By the way, the archive feature of iDVD is not meant to save all the encoded assetts. Instead it is meant to pull all the source files needed by a project in order to be able to reencode another version later on.
See when you create an iDVD project, the project is not very large, a couple megs, since it doesn't retain source files but instead knows where to get them. For example, your iMovie project might be 20GB. When you open an iDVD project for that iMovie project, the iDVD project simply knows that the source files are over in that iMovie project. If later you moved the iDVD project to another computer, you would lose that link to the other source files and woulodn't work anymore.
The archive function is meant to pull all the source files from where ever they exist on your computer into one project file. So now that iDVD archive file will be 20+ gigs. Now THAT file/folder you can move to other computers because it is all self contained now. But the process of encoding your assetts would have to be done again.
Patrick

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