How can I burn widescreen dvd's on iDVD

I've been editing videos on Final Cut Express for a couple of years now, I had three OneToOne subscriptions and my trainers have not been able to tell me how to burn a widescreen DVD on iDVD, our main suspition was that it was not in High Definition, but we both agreed there had to be a way. Every time even after choosing "widescreen" menus and settings it would burn with the two side curtains and the video disfigured. Anybody would say "just do widescreen on the TV set, but that didnot work, people in the video would not get the right shape. I tried it on more than four TV sets. Help please, I am tired of printing my videos back to tape (once edited) to recapture them on my PC to burn on Nero.

iDVD: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow from Final Cut Pro
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179?viewlocale=en_US
Final Cut Express: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow for iDVD at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1611
and
Preparing your Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro movie to work with iDVD at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6652.html

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