What does saving an iDVD project do?

After I create an iDVD project and burn a DVD, I save the project, and it is usually about a 4Gb project taking up lots of hard drive space.
I have tried to use this file to burn another DVD copy, but I find it does not work. If I click burn, it starts the whole encoding cycle again.
Also, I recently need to change the photo quicktime file in a burned DVD, so I opened up the saved project, deleted the photo slides show, imported the new slideshow and burned again (there was a 50 min movie on the DVD also). I was hoping it would encode the new photos only, but it re-encoded the whole DVD.
Question - What is the saved DVD pjoject for if you can't use it for these points above?

Thanks Michael, and Lennart,
I may be a bit thick, but let me try one more set of questions.
1. If i save a iDVD project it takes up 2-3Gb of disk space, but you can do anything with this file other than reburn it and have it go through the whole encoding process again. Why would anyone save that file?
2. Is it confirmed that if I haved a saved iDVD project and I make a change or add one asset then all assets have to be re-encoded? or is there a shortcut encoding if I'm working from an already encoded iDVD project.
3. Is it right that it makes more sense to choose not to save rendered files in preferences, since you can't do anything with them and they take up lots of space (sorry this is sort of the same as Q1)?
Thanks again,
Tony

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