Converting menu images from PAL to NTSC

I have to prepare an NTSC version of a PAL dvd project.
I am firstly converting all the material, prior to building the dvd. One question though - I have used a lot of stills as menu backgrounds that were extracted from my PAL videos via the export still image function of FCP HD. They are obviously PAL format. What is the easiest way to rescale them to fit the NTSC frame, and not have any distortion? And what is the correct format to import them in - 640x480 or 720x480? This project is intended to be watched on TV not computer screens so I assume the latter.
jake
g4 dual 1 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Just feed them as they are to iDVD.
iMovie HD exports stills from PAL projects as 784x576 and from NTSC as 720x528 so the aspect ratios are almost the same.
iDVD will scale them internally as needed.
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6bugs.html#stills
How are you going to convert the actual PAL video to NTSC? With JES Deinterlacer?
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#PALNTSC

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