Disk Utility -Anyway to make disks without copying all files?

So my toast 7 broke under leopard. I hadn't used Disk Utility, for this type of purpose at least for several years, so I'm becoming frustrated.

No mater whether I do it via a disk image, or put the files I want into the blank disk in the finder, it always copies the entire contents of what I want to burn. Is there anyway around this with the built in capabilities of burning disks? I just want to tell it what I want on the disk, and it leave the files where they are and burns from there. However, it can't do this?

Thanks so much for any advice.

 

Thanks. I thought the aliases wouldn't work and it would only burn aliases, so I made it copy over. Glad to hear it will go back to the original file, if an alias is there.