Getting Widescreen on IDVD

Hello, I have a movie I made in FCE, which I've saved as a Quicktime file, which is the only option I've found to preserve my chapter markers for the movie I created. After watching a preview in IDVD I noticed the movie was 4:3 and not 16:9 which was what it was shot at.
I've sent it over to IDVD and had it Widescreen and not widescreen. I'm not sure what has happened but I checked my settings and IDVD is set to 16:9.
I can stretch it in FCE using the quicktime conversion option and stretch it, but than the chapter markers won't be preserved.
Thanks for any help,

Well I've tried everything, with no luck so far. The only thing to work so far has been to save the movie as a quicktime conversion file, but this does not allow for the chapter markers to pass through.
Against my instincts, I purchased Quicktime Pro and follow the instructions to change the aspect ratio (hesitate, as someone who knows Macs felt FCE had the same features as QTP). This did not work either. In the instructions it states if it looks good in Qucktime, it will look good in IDVD. This was not the case.
The last thing I'm trying right now as we speak, is I saved the movie as a Quicktime file with the chapter markers included. Than I opened it in Quicktime Pro and selected to export it out of Quicktime. One thing I noticed is that I have the same options as the "quicktime conversion" selection in FCE that has maintained the aspect ratio when moved to IDVD. One of the options is "size", in which I selected a widescreen ratio. I'm hoping this allows me to stretch the footage while keeping the chapter markers intact.
Wish me luck,

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