Why do PAL Widescreen exports play in squashed 4:3 on all media players.

Hi There,
I am running Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, with all of the latest upgrades.
I am having trouble exporting PAL movie clips in widescreen in AMC via Premiere.
I have double checked all of the setting before i export, and they are definately fine (Widescreen is selected). Once the file is exported, i try to play it back in Nero player and Quicktime, as well as upload it to my website, and on each occassion it plays in a very squashed 4:3. Whan i bounce them with the same settings in NTSC it is fine, but as i am based in Europe (mainly England) i would like to keep all my files as PAL.
I am bouncing to H264 (with the You Tube Settings, but whatever setting i use it does the same, as well as MPEG2 DVD).
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards,
TCT.

To add to what Rallymax is saying, I can definitively say that Quicktime X displays anamorphic images different to other players, you should therefore not trust it.
Last year I was encoding some files for DVD authoring and QT X was displaying them incorrectly. I was sure I used the correct settings and I got a second opinion on this; Apple Support Discussions. All in all, I was correct and QT was not. Do not trust it, use a different program. Use MPEG Streamclip. It is available for both Mac OS and Windows.
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