Difference - Background music AND an audio music track added to a clip ?

Working on a iMovie 08 project, just curious, what's the difference between:
A. A soundtrack dragged from Media Browser/iTunes and dropped to the background canvas (project viewer) of a movie (resulting in a green/purple background) AND
B. The same soundtrack added to the movie clips (as an audio track)?
I see that in both cases I can have the music start at a particular point of video. I can "pin" the audio to a particular place in the video (in the case of background music track) or simply move the horizontal audio track icon to any point of a movie clip (in the case of music being added as an audio track). So just curious if there are other considerations to this?
Is there an advantage of one over the other?
When exporting to iDVD are there any performance considerations/differences between the two?
Thanks for the help in advance!

Is the clip held in finder, iTunes, or in the iMovie/iLife clips section?

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