FCE 4:3 Projects Are Stretched In iDVD !!!

This has never happened before.
I have exported an FCE 4:3 project to QuickTime Movie.
When played in the QT player it looks fine.
When put into a 4:3 iDVD project it appears distorted (stretched) and the preview window has "Widescreen Preview" in bright green at the bottom right corner.
The iDVD project is definitely 4:3.
I have tried numerous times and have deleted the iDVD .plist etc. but cannot get iDVD to play a normal 4:3 PAL movie in the correct aspect.
What is going on ? Any ideas ?

I cured the DVDSP problem by trashing the DVDSP Preference and Cache files but the same procedure did not work with iDVD.
I then spotted this thread by Kip McDowell which suggested a workaround. Namely opening the QT Movie in the QT Viewer and saving it as a reference movie.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1704261&tstart=0
That worked.
However, here's the weirdest thing. I continued playing around with new QT Movies that did not work and reference ones that did.
Suddenly the new QT Movies I was making started working for no apparent reason!
So the problem has gone (for the time being?) but I don't know why.

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