How Do I Tell FCE to use 16:9 Automatically?

I use a Canon camcorder and when I've imported movies using FCE 4.0.1, I generally haven't had problems with aspect ratios.
At this point all the video I shoot is in 16:9, but sometimes I'm using video a friend shoots. The aspect ratio was only a problem with one project in the past, and I can't remember what I did to fix it, but it has been working.
Today I took a video file from my friend. It was in 16:9, 1920x1080, a .mov file, but I'm not sure what the "under the hood" details are. I imported this file into FCE, then dragged it from the browser to the timeline, did my work, and when exporting, noticed that what I seem to be getting is a 16:9 box with letterboxing and the 16:9 video within that letter boxing -- so I'm squashed and look even more overweight than before.
I did some experimenting and found when I'm working with my own video, as I usually do, it shows up in the canvas window as one 16:9 image, but with my friend's video, it showed up as 4:3 - which I didn't notice because it was letterboxed and the black just seemed to be background.
I found that if I started a new project and dragged in video I knew was 16:9, then deleted that, then dragged in my friend's video, it was treated as true 16:9. So it seems that FCE determines the aspect ratio of a project according to the first clip dropped into the timeline.
What can I do to tell FCE: "Make all my projects 16:9 unless I say otherwise?" And is there some way, manually, to tell FCE to make a project either 16:9 or 4:3? The only way I can find to control the aspect ratio used in a project is by which video I first drop on the timeline. This is awkward, since it means to start, sometimes I'll have to find and import a clip of the raio I need, then delete it, and start with my project.

Yes you can change the Sequence manually and it is done by selecting an Easy Setup first then starting a NEW Project or Sequence.
There are a variety of Easy Setups to works with various footage from DV, HDV anf AVCHD cameras.
You are correct regarding dropping the first clip into the Timeline, usually you see a message asking to conform the Sequence if it's different to the existing one.
This is an Auto setup of the Easy Setup.
Doing it manually means you know exactly what the camera is sending to FCE and what the FCE Sequence needs to be set to, prior to starting editing.
Al

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