After Effects Output Setting for a Final Cut Sequence

Okay my final cut sequence in DV/DVCPRO NT 720x480. My After Effects composition is 720 x 480. When I render the After Effects is comes into the timeline 4x3. Help out there on what I'm doing wrong? User error for sure!

Look in the Browser..or bin. Scroll to the left...look at the columns. Note that one says ANAMORPHIC. put a check in that column.
BUT...did you do your graphic as anamorphic in AE? How can you make a 720x480 16:9 without it being anamorphic.
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Better organization of the search results. Again, if I search Nests, make the first set of results the answers that actually show me how to use the tool, not the 50 times it appears in the table of contents and indexes.
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