Collecting media for archival purposes

does anyone know about a way to collect all the media in a DVD Studio Pro Project? We have many, many projects, but the media used are across several hard discs - now to burn the projects including it's media on DVDs it would be great to have a collecting media function such as in InDesign - does that exist? Any suggestions???
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

There is no internal mechanism, such as in InDesign or Final Cut Pro, in DVD SP to gather assets like that -take a look here for some thoughts on project management in general
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2061440&#2061440

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