What would cause my Silverlight .xap to quadruple in size suddenly?

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I've been working on a Silverlight application. I just noticed that the .xap file is now four times as big as it was, what could have caused that?

Here's some other info:

there seems to now be many more language settings in the bin/Release directory
I checked "Reduce size of .xap" in under Properties/Silverlight but that just brought it down from 1300 to 1200.
I reference the System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit dll but I was doing that even when it was 325K

Screenshot of build directories before and after:

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