Correcting pixel aspect ratio with Publish settings

Same old, I know. I'm designing and producing a
Flash site using a Mac, but it will be viewed on a large
touchscreen (1366x768) driven by a PC. The vectors look fine when
going from the Mac 1.1 pixel aspect ratio to the Windows 1.0
display, but the photos look degraded and squashed vertically.
Could I fix with the Publish settings ... such as html- publish at
100% width, 99% height? I can't test easily because my pc's have
such fuzzy old displays, I can't see a thing. Flying blind. The
only time I see how awful it looks on a good PC display is when I
review the work to the client on the client's own PC...ouch.

In Premiere, you can right click on your footage in the Project Bin.  From the context menu, choose Modify then Interpret Footage.  In that dialog box, you can tell it to conform the pixel aspect ratio to 16:9.

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