Why is the numbers document so bloated?

I have a simple check register spreadsheet. In NeoOffice the file size is 20k, in Numbers it is 232k. Even creating a new empty untitled document in Numbers then saving results in a 124k document. Showing the Package Contents of my untitled Numbers document shows there is a completely useless document-thumbnail.tiff in every Numbers document created. Also, even though I selected the preference NOT to create a preview one is created in Quicklook/Thumbnail.jpg anyway.
Even the actual data portion of the Numbers document is bloated. An empty document's index.xml.gz is 72k vs 20k of OpenOffice/NeoOffice. I took the index.xml.gz unzipped it, ran it through tidy (tidy -xml -wrap 0 -i -m .../index.xml) and looked at the raw xml. It saves all kinds os stylesheet information even if my particular document doesn't use it.
Despite my gripes I will continue to use it because it works for the most part. I second the complaint about being unable to freeze rows or being unable to split the window in two either horizontally or vertically.

I have discovered that iWork files are actually bundles, not pure documents in the traditional sense of the word. Inside one of my test 'Numbers' document/bundle, there is a folder 'Contents' (with a small Pkginfo' file inside of it), a document thumbnail, an index.xml.gz file and a 'QuickLook' folder containing a detailed jpeg of the actual document itself. Obviously, this is meant for Leopard's QuickLook feature.
The .gz file and QuickLook feature take up a combined 136KB of my 152KB document. The same applies to documents created in Keynote and Pages.
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