Converting a 16:9 edit to 4:3?

I've got about 70 videos I've produced for a client, which was shot and is not edited in 16:9. They have since decided they want the files to all be 4:3, which I have allowed for anyway with the title safe overlays.
Even so, I've still got to convert all of these files to 4:3 for them, which is a huuuuuuuuuuuge job.
Is there a quick way of converting the files from 16:9 to 4:3 (chopping off the edges?
Or am I going to have to literally scale up and distort every single shot/image?

Its for the Internet. So I've got to convert to Quicktime first (I'm guessing) and then encode to Flash (the clients format of choice).
Maybe that's the way to do it then, that's a good suggestion. Shame I can't export it with cropped sides. This is going to take me a long time!
By the way, in my first post I didn't mean 'is not edited in 16:9', I meant 'IS edited in 16:9'.

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