Getting widescreen .mov to properly letterbox

I have a 624x352 .mov file and want to burn a properly letterboxed DVD on a regular TV. I cannot figure out a way to do it with just iDVD. If I pick a 4:3 theme and drop in the movie I get no letterboxing with the DVD, just a pan and scan DVD. A widescreen theme is just wrong. The only way I have figured out how to do this is to drop the movie into iMovie with format DV, then share to iDVD (a 4:3 theme) and then burn. This seems to play properly on a DVD player. But the weird thing is that if I play this on my Mac fullscreen I get black on all sides. Get info says 720x480 but it clearly is wider than 720. But it could be even wider with no black bars on the sides. This is clearly different from a commercial DVD which will fill up the entire width and letterbox top and bottom.
Does anyone know how to make this work other than the way I said?
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I cannot figure out a way to do it with just iDVD.
Ok , but why use only iDVD when this might help?
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
Get info says 720x480 but it clearly is wider than 720.
Yes...and no....
Anamorphic DV is 720 X 480, just like normal DV, but when it is displayed it is stretched to 16:9 format......both have the exact same number of pixels before they are displayed

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