CS4 Exporting widescreen AVI or Quicktime problems...

Hi.
Ive been pulling my hair out with this one for a long time and can't seem to get anywhere with it despite searching the net for an anwer that works for me.
I simply want to export a short video as a PAL widescreen AVI or Quicktime movie, I really don't mind which.
My problem is that no matter what settings I try, the video either comes out slightly stretched with black bars to the left and right (below left) or reduced in size rather than fullscreen (below right).
The images below are from VLC player set to fullscreen viewing. I thought it might be an isue with VLC but I get the same problem when I try it with Quicktime player and when I uploaded the final video to the net... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZuhsrM6tY
The settings that got me the above results are:
Format: Microsoft AVI or Quicktime
Preset: Pal DV Widescreen
Codec: DV Pal or H.264
Width and Height: 720 x 576 (greyed out and locked, unless using H.264 Codec)
I've tried interprating my footage to conform to the pixel aspect ratio of D1/DV PAL Widescrren 16:9 (1:4587) which helped but the image is still not fullscreen if you see what I mean?
If anyone can tell me what settings I should be using I would be eternally greatful because I'm going to lose my mind if I don't figure it out soon. Surely it can't be that difficult or unusual export format!?
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
Stuart.

Jim Simon wrote:
The problem is with the players. You need to tell them to unsquish the video manually. They don't do it automatically.
YouTube needs a square pixel export. You would not use this export for upload to YouTube. You'd export a separate file specifically for that.
how do I manually tell the players to do that?
I am struggling with the same issue: DV PAL is always 4:3 720x576 - so where does the "PAL DV Widescreen" export setting (PAR parameter) come into play?
DV PAL 720x576 16:9 letterbox source footage was captured at PAR 1.0940
sequence is same PAR
what should be my export settings for:
1. creating a file to be displayed correctly on a flat screen TV monitor using a DVD standard player
2. creating a file to be displayed correctly on a computer monitor using a Windows OS / players
3. creating a file to be uploaded on youtube (I got that exported and uploaded and displayed alright by tagging it yt:crop=16:9). I think I exported it as Sq pixel PAR
4. Encore settings for creating a DVD with these videos to be displayed on both TV monitor and PC monitor.
All export settings I tested the file with produced a lightly 'fattened' image when played back on my mac using QT, exept the Sq pixel export which looks perfect on my mac. No Sq pixel exported files show in QT player Info window: "720x576 (788x576)" - why is that?
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