16:9 video, but looks stretched  vertically

I am making a dvd in dvdstudio pro. My movie clips are edited in iMovie (16:9) and my menus are made in Photoshop with a preset (16:9).
The problem is, when i burn the dvd and put it into my dvd player that is hooked up to my tv, the picture fills up the whole screen and the menus and video looks stretched vertically. It doesn't look like 16:9. And there are no black horizontal "free areas" either as there usually is when it is 16:9. I have chosen my menus and video to be 16:9 in dvd studio pro. When i press simulate though, it first appears in 4:3, and when i change it to 16:9 it looks like it should.
What am i doing wrong? I want it to look better on my tv!

I have set all tracks and menus to 16:9 letterbox in the inspector.
When I play hollywood movies I see letterboxing on both a widescreen tv and a 4:3 tv.
When I built my DVD to my harddrive and opened it in Apples DVD player, it looks rectangle, but the height of the rectangle seemed to be too high. I have a 22" widescreen tft-monitor and the black horizontal stripes from the letterboxing are only about an inch tall in fullscreen. If i play a hollywood movie, the "black stripes" are much bigger, about twice as big. This is what I want my movie to look like.
I have checked the dvd-player and TVs settings but there seemed to be nothing wrong. I mean, the hollywood movies look great. Why doesn't mine?
How do I get my DVD to have these black stripes from the letterboxing effect?
Heres a picture on my 22" widescreen.
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3345/bild1k.png
And on my TV.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/540/img3558.jpg
Sorry for the horrible quality

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