Data disk questions

I burned several data DVDs to use as "readable by mac backups", as opposed to backup dvds which are only "readable by iTunes".
There are numbers in front of each folder, and songs within the folders have numbers as well.
1. Is there a setting somewhere that would eliminate these numbers? i have looked everywhere and cannot find any settings for that.
The songs play just fine in the finder. If I double click on them, then iTunes plays the song from the stored music in iTunes.
Videos are grayed out in the finder and thus don't play there. If I double click, they are copied to iTunes, and then they play from iTunes. And of course, they now exist with numbers and names, as opposed to just names (in the iTunes music folder)
2. Why are songs just played and TV shows copied again into iTunes?
If the data disk is to act as a backup, then I suppose copying the data into iTunes is a good thing.
3. So if a song gets deleted, would double clicking on the data disk song put it back into the library?
The help for buying CDs and DVDs disks says to use -R or -RW disks.
I thought our drives support both + and - DVDs.
4. Why does help say only - DVDs?
Costco has an offer now to buy 100, get 100 free. So I have to get DVD -R only.

anyone have any ideas?

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