Changing background colour either side of 4:3 image on a 16:9 screen

Hi there,
I am using iDVD 6, and have a showreel made up of various formats of video. I have decided to make all my clips 4:3, letterboxing when the original image was widescreen, full frame for an original 4:3.
I know it will be watched on a widescreen, so I want to make the the DVD in widescreen, to take advantage of the extra acreage for menus and so on. But when it comes to playing the showreel, even though the 4:3 reel is correctly at the centre of the screen, the vertical bars on either side are grey. This is very distracting. It would help enormously if I can make these black, to match the top and bottom bars of the letterbox images.
I hope this is clear.
I am using the reflection white theme, and very lovely it is too.
Thanks - Nigel
MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   2GB RAM

I'm replying to my own question, as I think I've solved it, or found my problem.
In iDVD, playing back your project in preview mode gives you the grey side bars if you have a 4:3 image. But burning it to a desktop image, and playing the DVD treated a 4:3 image properly, clicking over to 4:3, and leaving either side black. I'm guessing that when I burn my DVD there will be no problem.
Hope that helps anyone who gets in the same position.
Nigel

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