Importing 16:9 .mov clips

I've searched the discussions and the apple site for an answer but no luck so far.
I've imported some .mov clips in 16:9 aspect ratio but when I share the finished project with iDVD the resulting movie is "squished", for lack of better word, and the people are elongated (pillarboxed?). So far I've tried unchecking the pillarboxing/letterboxing option in the iMovie preferenes but I think this is for importing from cameras only. Anyway, it didn't work; the resulting movie is still affected. If I drag the .mov clips directly into an iDVD project the finished DVD is in 16:9, except now I have 5 short movies rather than one feature length movie. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this a shortcoming of iMovie?
Thanks, Dennis

Klaus,
I'm not using QT as an intermediary but only to view the .mov files I downloaded from the internet. I compare that with the disc image I burned in iDVD. I use QT to view the original .mov files and Apple's DVD player to view the disc image.
To summarize, I downloaded 5 .mov "acts" which make up an entire movie. It was available for download this way instead of the entire movie all in one file because it was too big a file (I guess), or maybe it was made in 5 different acts available at different times. Anyway, I wanted to put them all together into a complete movie using my existing software options. I thought to import them into iMovie and then share to iDVD and burn a DVD. I can do all that but in the final product the actors are elongated, so I figured the original was in 16:9 format. The problem seems to originate when I import the files into iMovie. So, I viewed the original .mov files with QT to see if they looked elongated and they did not. I even put the origiall .mov files directly into a iDVD, not "stitching" them together with iMovie, burned a disc image, and they look fine. I assume importing the .mov files into iMovie "squishes" them together and they come out elongated. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I thought maybe your suggestions would solve this probem but it didn't. Should I convert the .mov to some other file first, such as .avi or .mpg4?
I really appreciate you trying to help me.
Dennis

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