FCE Project in 16:9 interpreted as 4:3 by W'screen TV after iDVD created

Hi all! Compliments of the season to you!
Look I know it's Christmas and everything but I hope you'll stay the journey and quickly read this and thanks if you do.
If I set my tv to Widescreen Normal and I put a 4:3 DVD in the player, of course you will get the black bars on the side which makes sense. If I leave it on Widescreen Normal and put a 16:9 DVD in the player, what usually happens is the tv knows it's getting a 16:9 signal and the picture automatically adjusts and bang you have now the widescreen full mode without having to actually go through the tv menu to manually make it widescreen full mode.
WEll here's my dilemma! I'll shoot something on 16:9, capture in anamorphic on FCE and all is fine through that whole process, everything looks the way it should.
But when I create the DVD in iDVD (choosing 16:9 as the aspect ratio and using a 16:9 theme for the menu) and have the tv on Widescreen Normal, it will automatically go to widescreen full mode for the menu but when I choose play or enter and it goes into the video content, bang it squashes the picture up and goes back into Widescreen normal as if it was a 4:3 project.
If I choose to go back to the menu, yes you guessed it, it goes back into the full widescreen mode.
By the way when it does go into the 4:3 mode I just have to manually change the TV to Full Widescreen mode and the footage takes up the whole screen and the ratios are as they should be but I don't think I should have to do that. I can see me giving the DVD to someone and them thinking that the squashed picture is just how it is supposed to look! What's goin' on here? THere's gotta be something simple I'm doing wrong. It really bugs me! Hope you can help! BTW it's not just footage I shoot myself it can be any 16:9 stuff I put through the iDVD process.
Thanks for your time
Peter L

Tom I reckon you've had to pass on that info hundreds of times, sorry 'bout that, but I have to tell you I sure do appreciate you bothering to take the time to pass it on to me coz I was totally oblivious to it. And of course it has solved the problem! Thanks heaps and have a great and safe new year!
Peter L

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