Anamorphic Exporting Agony (16:9 Pal)

Hello all,
A little while back I shot and edited a 11 minute corporate video. I shot it in DVPal 16:9. I had no problems editing it in FCP and exporting it using Quicktime Conversion, using the Broadcast (High, Med & Low) settings. The files came out widescreen 16:9 anamorphic, high quality image with pretty black bars on top and bottom.
The sequence presets are set to anamorphic and the video has been captured as anamorphic.
Now, the client asked for a shorter version with subtitles added to it. Easy, I thought. I used a couple of the sequences I used before. And in between them I cut together footage from two other sequences. So we have a sequence with nested sequences and clips. In the first video track I placed a white color bar (same as I had in the previous 11 minute video). On top of the footage I added the subtitles.
When I try exporting the final sequence I ALWAYS get a squished video. No bars no anamorphic just ugly squished agony. I have tried setting conform aperture in QT to production. I have checked and double checked that every video file is set to anamorphic. In the preview window in Quicktime Conversion I see an anamorphic image. What the heck is going on???
Using the custom frame size settings I can get a widescreen version if I set to 360 288. But the image quality isn't what it was before and I don't have the pretty black bars I like so much.
Please please... is there anybody out there who can help me out? I am at a loss here...
cheers,
Alaric
ps. the new video is 6 minutes long.
pps. this is the link to the site where the original video is posted, it was exported using the Broadcast High settings (i want it to look liek that!!)
http://www.ekvandoorne.com/04.html

Anamorphic video doesn't have black bars at the top and bottom. Anamorphic video is what you describe as "ugly squished agony" which is then unsquished on playback. If you're seeing this "problem" on playback, it's because the player doesn't know the video is supposed to be anamorphic.
What you actually want to do is export it letterboxed, which is not anamorphic.

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