Forcing the aspect ratio (stretching) in QT Player?

Hello,
I want to set my quicktime player to always stretch my video, be it 4:3 or 16:9 source material, to a certain pixel size so it always perfectly fills the screen. I have found the following posting by Adam:
"In Quicktime Pro you need to go to Menu Bar/Window/show movie properties/video track/show visual/transformation settings and change the pixel or percentage rate, not forgetting to uncheck preserve aspect ratio."
This DOES work for the currently open video..but I want this to be a fixed setting in QT Player for every movie file I open.
(In case you are wondering - I want to use QT Player inside Front Row to play DivX movies that are 4:3 on my 16:9 Widescreen and always fit the screen).
VLC and MplayerOSX can do it, I am sure QT Player can, but how do I set it?
Thanks in advance!

In QT-Pro, you can ask it to play full-screen...does that stretch to fit?
There is a QuickTime script available that will mark the movie to "Play full screen on open". Might that also help?
Another option...you could write an AppleScript that would allow you to open a movie and then programmatically resize it to fit your screen.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shiFprOnbK4
This is an unfinished std. def video hence this issue I ran into which is just a fun video for my youth group kids I teach at my church. I am editing it in final cut pro 7 and if you see at about 35 seconds the aspect ratio changes whatever its doing with the picture there.
I have never ran into this problem before so I don't know if its something I may have selected on the camera accidentally or done wrong in FCP but I shot all the video the same day of course for this event of ours and all the other video is fine an in 16:9 or what was called the "letterbox" option on my Panasonic DVX100B.
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I can't watch the video as well. Not quite sure what trouble your having
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