Help needed re: aspect ratios

Hey all,
I have a nagging problem with aspect ratios and I am hoping that someone on here can help. I understand that it might be a little more of an "in-depth" issue than most, but it's driving me absolutely insane and I will be forever grateful to the souls that help me with it.
I am compressing all my films to Flash for my website. The films are all in different aspect ratios. I am including links to help fully understand:
16:9 http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1663/elotroladolgprogpd9.jpg
4:3 with a 16:9 matte??
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6516/burningdownqtga4.jpg
4:3 with a tiny matte
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5733/finalscherbarthph5.jpg
16:9 with a 2.35:1 matte
http://www.robertobentivegna.com/test
4:3 with a 1.85:1 matte
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/5488/miraklech9.jpg
I guess my question, or my issue is... should I try and re-frame the images so that they don't have mattes, and how would I go about doing that? I can understand watching a matted 1.85:1 image on a 4:3 TV, but on a website it makes little sense to have a 4:3 frame if I can avoid it.
For example, this image: http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6516/burningdownqtga4.jpg
is this a 16:9 frame matted for 4:3??
I am so confused.
Roberto

What encoding tool are you using? If you're using Flash Encoder (part of Flash Professional), you can trim out the mattes in the Crop And Resize tab of the Settings dialog.
Or is your issue beyond that, perhaps related to using another encoder?

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