Why does my 4:3 miniDV video keep getting captured as 16:9? (Vidi/Final Cut Pro question)

This is partially related to Final Cut Studio, although not necessarily.  I've been trying to back up dozens of my miniDV tapes on to my harddrive for several months now, racing against the clock as their video quality starts to degrade.  Since Final Cut Pro started giving me problems with the timecode breaks, I started using a capture program called Vidi instead (v0.4.7)  Everything was capturing well, considering, until just last week where several of my tapes, which were shot in 4:3, would capture as 16:9.  That is, the video files were clearly stretched to a 16:9 aspect ratio and appeared distorted.  Today I tried to go back to Final Cut (v6.0.6) to capture it the old way, and, lo and behold, the video was once again being stretched to 16:9.
A few things:
- I'm about as sure as I can be that these tapes were shot in 4:3.  I've watched them several times on my TV and they are played back in 4:3, with the black bars on the left and right.
- I had actually captured video previously from one of these tapes a few years back and it recorded as a 4:3 video file, just as it should.
- I definitely have "4:3" checked off in Vidi when I capture the video.  What's even more infuriating, is that BOTH Vidi and Final Cut show the video playing in its 4:3 aspect ration during apture.  It's only when I check the captured file that it's been stretched to 16:9
- A tape I shot in 2008 captured perfectly with Vidi today - in it's 4:3 format.  That seems to imply that it's not a software setting issue.
I'm starting to lose my mind with this, especially since I haven't found a single reference to this problem anywhere else.  All I want is to get the raw DV data off of these tapes to work with at a future date, and I'd like it to be exactly as it was originally shot, not distorted.  Maybe some bit of code on these tapes got messed up over time, resulting in capture software to think it was shot in 16:9?  These tapes aren't anywhere near my oldest ones - they're from 2010 and 2011.  Is there something obvious I'm missing when I capture these videos?  If there's no other solution, is it possible to squeeze them back to 4:3?  It might not look as good as if were captured in it's native format, but I'm out of ideas.

Not sure if it makes any difference for archiving purposes, but dv files (dv streams) are not generally recommended for use in fcp.  .mov with the dv codec is how fcp captures SD video via firewire.  Someone a few months ago claimed that .dv was fine with fcp, but I seem to remember that audio will always need to be rendered and since I always use fcp for capture of DV material, it's not an issue for me. 
You can use compressor to both convert to .mov with the dv codec and reset the anamorphic flag.  Not sure if there will be any loss of quality, so it might be worth testing this.  Perhaps someone with more knowledge will speak up regarding this or alternative methods of converting .dv to .mov
What problems are you having capturing from within fcp?  Shouldn't be a problem.  I find that setting the easy setup correctly is crucial for successful capturing.  Even if all the individual elements that seem to compose the easy set up are correct, there can still be problems.  Perhaps you might want to start a new thread regarding your capture problems and we can see if we can solve the problem.

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