DVD SP4 Widescreen templates

Hi
I know I need to learn to make my own, but with a new baby and no time for anything but the absolute essentials, please will someone point me in the direction of where I can find some widescreen templates.
Also, where on my hard drive will I find the images which make up the existing templates which come as standard. If I could find these I could tweak my existing ones, however, I have looked and can not find them.
All help gratefully received. Thank you

Have you tried simply setting the templates to 16:9?

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*Keep the quality*
0nce you have compressed data - you can't get the original quality back - so store as full quality as possible - and in several formats so there is always a backup.
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data cds don't hold that much - 700mb - so forget about them for quality productions and archiving
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*'share' settings*
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http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/why_upgrade.jhtml
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