Help - once transferred to DVD, video looks "squeezed"

I'm new to this so thanks for bearing with me.
I copied a movie from my camcorder to iMovie, and Shared it to iDVD. When I burned the movie from iDVD onto a DVD-R (I have a PB G4 with Superdrive), then watched the DVD, the picture looks compressed or "squeezed" together. Is there something I need to do differently, a change in formatting somewhere, perhaps related to the 16:9? Thanks for any help! Hope I supplied enough info.

Thank you - I can answer some of your questions but not all (yet). But in the meantime, I was also wondering whether this "squeezed" image problem might only be apparent on my laptop's DVD player - and not if I play the DVD on my TV? (I am traveling and can't test that yet).
To answer some of your questions:
What Camera 4x3 or 16x9 (HD) ?
-- Canon Elura 100 (mini DV)16:9
Versions of: Mac OS, QuickTime, iMovie and iDVD ?
-- OS X 10.4.8, QT 7.1.3, iMovie HD 5.0.2, iDVD 5.0.1
Where do You store Your movie, internal hard disk or ext one? If ext one, USB or FW and how is it formatted ?
-- Internal Hard disk so far
a. Did Your movie look OK in iMovie ?
-- Yes
b. If You instead of Share/Export to iDVD, drop Your movie icon into a selected iDVD theme window (just inside the edge of this to avoid the movie to become a button)
-- No, I "Shared" the iMovie to iDVD
(I am now working on trying the other suggestion you made)
-SG

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I have used I DVD before with great results! I have done several DVD's and each of them have looked great and smooth. I am using an HD camera and sharing to Itunes in the high resolution setting. The movie when played on my apple tv looks smooth and great. When the same video is burned to the DVD it looks like some of the frames are missing. While it looks clear it looks jerky like something you would see on the internet or an old home movie. Any help would be appreciated as I have tried to change the setting but cant seem to find what is wrong. I am not sure if some upgrade has hurt performance, is anyone experiencing this same issue. The slide show looks great and plays smooth with music. I created the slide show in Imovie08 and copied it into the DVD that way because when I tried to use the slide show option in IDVD the music kept skipping and cutting out.
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I will try to answer both request in one post. First the video did not really look like the tracking was off generally this makes lines in the video. I was more like an old time movie only not that bad where it may have been missing some frames but the picture looked good just choppy.
What I did first was share to the media browser a "large movie" from Imovie08 then import into IDVD- that did not work choppy- about 1.05gb for 38 min of video
Next I shared to Itunes from Imovie08 same as above result the same-(guess it would be since the same movie format just in a different place. Since it worked before guessed I would give it a try. I tried this option several times on several settings. While the movie played fine in Itunes it did not when burned and played on the DVD.
Someone had a post about quicktime upgrade being a problem so I thought. . .and then
Next I exported a large .MOV file it came to 8.07GB for the same 38 min of video above. This I put into the movie file then pulled it into IDVD and burned the video and IT WORKED!!! no choppy video!
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for all we know you could be trying to put 3 hours of video on a single layer dvd and using 3mbit data rate which will look very bad.
there could be several issues, are your fields correct? reversed fields can make graphics look pixelated. what are you viewing your dvd on that makes it look so bad? i have noticed many hdtv lcd flat panels when given a SD DVD video look horrible.
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