Editing Photoshop stills for Wide Screen Premiere DVDs

A 4" x 3" canvas @ 200 ppi with photos pasted on it in Photoshop Elements makes a nice TV image in a Premiere Elements DVD.
Switching to Widescreen shows, I thought, would simply be starting with a 16" x 9" @ 150 ppi canvas with photos in Elements,
openeing a new project in Premiere 6 (and later Premiere 8), set preferences to "D1, DV,Widescreen. NTSC",
set burn to "Widescreen", and that would do it.
Instead, circles are all ovals on the TV, and people are short and fat.
I have scoured the Help files for guidance on what seems like such a basic question without success.
What am I missing?
Murray

I don't seem to have any problem creating/burning the DVD but the distortiion on the TV. In PSE 6.0 I created 3 pictures and burned a test DVD with the following results.
Picture #1. A JPEG collage (a series of circles) on a 855x480 canvas. It displays accurately in the Monitor screen, the Preview screen and on the Menu Buttons in Premiere Elements. On the TV, however, the "circles" are fat ovals.
Picture #2 A JPEG photograph cropped to 16 x 9 with some circles added. It also looks good on the PRE preview screens but again, are ovals on the TV
Picture #3. Several circles pasted on a "DV Widescreen" canvas. They appear as ovals in the Premiere Elements screens and Menu buttons- - but are perfect circles on the TV.
Since the goal is an accurate image on the TV screen, this might be the only way to get there unless there are some other "tricks".
Thanks for the note
Murray
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