IMovie HD Stretches Images

I have some video clips that I captured from a non-DV NTSC (American TV) source using a video capture card. When played in QuickTime, they look fine. I was able to import these into iMovie HD without any problem, but they look odd when I play them there. They are much too wide.
I played with some of the formats that iMovie HD supports, but I have the same problem in all of them when importing my NTSC clips. Is there any way around this problem?

How do I squeeze it back to normal.
If the original file was taken in a "letterbox" mode, the edit it as a 4:3 aspect project. If by "turned it into an .mov" you mean you cropped the file and transcoded it to an "anamorphic" file and set the "anamorphic" flag during the process, then edit the file as a 16:9 widescreen project. Basically, your work flow and desired target format are unclear here.

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