IWeb image files

I've been using iWeb heavily for two sites that I maintain. The one thing that always irked me is that the program, when you add the same image to multiple pages, instead of pointing to one single file copies multiple versions of the same image file to each pages image folder.
Can anyone with iWork '08 check to see if this is still the same setup or has Apple actually corrected this behavior. It happens with other file types as well but in my sites it's most prevalent with images.
Thanks in advance.
Here are the sites for those interested:
http://www.sonsofben.net
http://www.umsconline.org

I'm not sure if this is still true in iWeb '08, but in order for images to be rendered to a common Images folder, the image has to be placed on the site with no effects that would cause the image to have to be re-rendered.
For example, the background on my pages
http://web.mac.com/makentosh/iWeb/tipsfromtheiceberg/Images/background.jpg
Are all pulled from the same location because this is a .jpg and no effects were added to it. As a result, my pages render a little faster since this background doesn't have to be pulled for each individual page.
Another example is here.
http://web.mac.com/makentosh/iWeb/tipsfromtheiceberg/visual_archive.html
All of the little tags to the lower right used to be shapes I altered in iWeb and then shrunk. iWeb was forced to render all of these to .png's because shapes MUST be rendered before displaying on the web page. By turning those tags into images that I just dropped on the page, you can see
http://web.mac.com/makentosh/iWeb/tipsfromtheiceberg/Images/qtag.png
That instead of having qtag-1.png, qtag-2.png, etc. I've got one image that's referenced for each instance it appears on the page. That made this page load faster as well.

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