Aspect Ratio and Chapter Issues in iDVD

HI there,
I may be being particularly dense here and missing something but I'm being driven avsolutely mad by this.
Firstly, I have a Movie which is 16:9, correctly flagged in Quicktime as 16:9, and plays in 16:9 until I add it to a project (a 16:9 themed project) in iDVD whereupon it gets sqaushed to 4:3. This is ridiculous.
The only workaround I found was to imprt the whole movie into iMovie and 'Share' it then to iDVD which preserved the aspect ratio but took rather a long time to process,
The second issue I'm having is with inserting Chapter markers. I see that you can insert these regularly every 4 minutes or whatever, but what if you actually want to insert them at the start of a scene ? I wouldn't have thought it was beyond the ken of man to allow you to specify a particular timecode for each chapter marker ?
Hopefully I'm missing something that someone can put me right on, either that or iDVD is really missing a trick.
Thanks in advance for your help
Richard

You create the chapter markers in iMovie before going to iDVD.

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