ProjectPrefs2.xml keeps old clips

Hi.
I setup a DVD project, which I use as template for future projects. After DVD_1 is finished, I say "Save as ..." to DVD_2. I delete the DVD_1 clips, add DVD_2 clips and modify the menus. After DVD_2 project is finished, I say "Save as ..." DVD_3, and so on ... Arriving at DVD_5, I noticed that the file ProjectPrefs2.xml kept all clips from previous DVD projects. Besides that, the DVD_x.ncor files also grow in size.
Worse ... when opening DVD_5 project, DVD Encore started to rebuild the Cache, including all clips of previous projects.
How can I tell DVD Encore to disregard all previous clips contained before DVD_5?
(was this understandable?) ;)
Thanks,

Probably too late to help, but, I have found that when doing the same thing (using a Project as a "template"), I have to not just remove the Assets, but Revert to Original first, as the original Assets will have links to the Transcoded versions used, when the Project was initially burned. First noticed this, when opening up a Save_As version of the "template" and saw that a lot of conforming was being done to Assets, that had been removed. I have since begun "cleaning" my Projects, when using them as "templates," prior to the Save_As. This is an extra step, but dissolves the links to older Assets. Just deleting them does not dissolve these links if the files have been Transcoded.
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