Fixing Animorphic footage in once non-animprphic sequence.

Greetings All!
Here is my problem:
I captured some HDV footage into fcp. It is in a DV/DVCPRO animorphic format. The clips look correct in the Viewer. They are all 'animorphic on', and they all display in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
My mistake was to create a sequence that was not animorphic! I edited all my clips together, and now I'm ready to export. However, my piece is now in 4:3, with the footage letterboxed!
I went to the sequence, and set it to be anamorphic. That didn't fix it, as now the footage is still letterboxed, and stretched inside a 16:9 aspect ratio. When I brought the same clips over again, they did fit properly into the 16:9 aspect ratio. But all the previously edited clips are still letterboxed.
Beyond bringing over every clip and basically re-editing; is there any way to make the existing clips in the timeline fit back to the correct 16:9 aspect ratio?
Thanks!!!
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Create a new blank anamorphic sequence. Select all from the 4:3 sequence and paste into the new sequence. Then drag the handles to expand the (looks letterboxed) picture until it fills the anamorphic frame.
Actually, this is incorrect considering that the clips in question here are actually anamorphic, and not letterboxed 4:3.
Try this instead:
Alter your current sequence settings to Anamorphic
Select all clips (Command-A)
Bring up the Remove Attributes dialog (Option-Command-V or control-click), then select Distort from the left-hand Video options. Click OK.
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If you've got any Freeze Frames that you've created from the Timeline, they will need to be recreated (since those frames will be 4:3)
If you've already adjusted the Scale of your clips, in step 3, select Basic Motion as well as Distort.

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