Detecting widescreen

I have a 16:9 PAL movie exported from Final Cut Express (using DV PAL Anamorphic sequence settings).
The resulting movie file on disc is 720x576 pixels, which is the correct pixel dimensions for DVD.
When I open the movie in iDVD, it does not detect that the movie is actually 16:9 - it becomes pillar-boxed in a 16:9 PAL iDVD project. Maybe not a big problem, but you'd expect that it would. Final
Cut does detect the correct aspect ratio.
When I open the movie in Quicktime, it is displayed as square pixels (wrong aspect ratio). So I adjust the display size to be 1024x576 to see the correct aspect ratio on the screen.
Now iDVD gets the aspect ratio correct. However, the quality of the video when encoded is severely degraded. It seems that there is some image scaling going on - all the text and diagonal lines in the artwork are terrible. (footage contains text and artwork exported from Keynote presentation and assembled into a movie in Final Cut Express) It also looks as the image has been de-interlaced using one field only.
The end result is that iDVD creates DVDs that look terrible.
Dropping the same video file on Toast 8 creates a beautiful looking DVD.
Maybe this is a bug that is fixed in iDVD'08. I certainly won't be buying it unless it's better than iDVD6.
Has anyone found a solution to this?

Anything here help?
Like settings - I know it refer to widescreen!
iDVD: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow from Final Cut Pro
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179?viewlocale=en_US
Final Cut Express: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow for iDVD at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1611
and
Preparing your Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro movie to work with iDVD at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6652.html

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