Help a Noob. Quicktime and Square Pixels.

I can not figure out how to get my well proportioned 3.5 minute sequence exported to a Quicktime movie that does not look "squished up". The square pixel thing is getting to me. Anyone have a way to do this?
All I want to do is have a Quicktime .mov that I can distribute around my office for approval.
I am set to take FCP training in November, but I need to finish this sooner than that.
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me!

Ok.
We assume the footage is 4:3.
Check if your timeline/sequence is 4:3. Select a sequence and go to the menu Sequence > Settings. You must NOT have checked the 16:9 anamorphic option. If you have, deselect it.
Go to your sequence in FCP select some clip making double click on it and go to the Motion tab in your Viewer. Check if in the Distort group you have '0' as aspect ratio.
Tell me what you found there!
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