Black Bar appear on Export

I have always created DVD's of my finished projects by exporting a Quicktime Movie to my desktop, dragging it into IMovie HD and burning a DVD by sharing with IDVD.
Since having installed FCP I get a black Bar down the left side about 1/8th. the size of the screen when I play my project back in IMovie. It follows to the DVD. Any suggestions?

Tom:
I was taught to export to IMovie by someone else. I hadn't even considered I could go directly to IDVD. Since your prompt, I researched doing just that, tried it and it appears to have worked. It also eliminated the black bar which was appearing in IMovie HD. This is how I had done it in FCExpress and I guess it doesn't work with FCP. It's a much shorter process.
Now I have to figure out why I can't get video to my external monitor through my deck. I've thrown every switch I know to throw and neither my deck nor the external monitor is seeing video from the computer via firewire. Any hints?
Thanks
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