Exporting anamorphic sequence to Quicktime

I'm trying to export an anamorphic sequence to Quicktime to post online. As I understand it, Quicktime doesn't acknowledge the anamorphic flag on a video file, but I came across a workaround in this article ( http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75079 ) which suggests altering the video size upon exporting.
Problem is, when I follow the recommended procedure, the QT player window actually IS widescreen, but the video inside is not, making it pillarboxed (black columns on left and right). So it's back to the drawing board. Anybody have any suggestions or success at doing what I'm trying to do?

Try a custom size of 360 x 202, 180 x 101 etc. Works well, so it all the time without pillarboxing occurring. This is what I have been doing for HDV 1080/60 items.
(FWIW when 16:9 video is encoded for 4:3 playback [ with letterbox settings from the player without adding anything to the video itself] the resulting MPEG is 720 x 404, so these numbers are based on the same ratio. )
If this way does not work, try doing this by opening the item in QT then following the same steps.

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