Final Cut Express with Youtube

Hi all,
I've been having this really annoying problem ever since I started using final cut to export movie files for Youtube and I can't find anything online to help me out, so hopefully one of you knows the answer!
Basically every time I export a video from FCE and upload it to Youtube, the video only fills a small part of the Youtube screen, rather than taking up the full video box, which looks pretty awful - Check out the example below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G7n78FqrPs
Has anyone else had this problem? Or does anyone know the optimum export settings for Youtube so the video takes up the full screen?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Ben

Yes, I know the dimensions of the source video do not match the optimum Youtube dimensions, but this video fits the full screen before I put it into FCE so I must be doing something wrong within FCE which is messing with the video. Here's the properties for the video and the sequence (Last time I right clicked on the file outside of FCE; the properties below are what I got when I right clicked on the file and sequence within the browser)
Video:
Vid rate: 30fps
Frame size: 510x284
Compressor: H.264
Pixel aspect: Square
Field dominance: None
Sequence:
Vid rate: 25fps
Frame size: 720x576
Compressor: DV-PAL
Pixel aspect: PAL-CCIR 601
Field dominance: Lower (even)
Hope you can see something wrong in all that?!
Cheers,
Ben

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