Importing images into final cut

Hi,
I am working on a widescreen video, DV PAL format in final cut express (4.0.1). The sequence is thus set to anamorphic (seq properties: frame size: 720x576, dv-pal, anamorphic).
To get the effect I wanted, I exported the frames for a clip as an image sequence out of fce and opened these in GIMP. There I first rescaled the image to 1024x576 which is PAL widescreen. Then I made the changes.
Now when I re-import back into fce:
1. it imports it as a sequence. This is even when I have flattened the image but saved as .psd. Is it doing so because its saved as .psd? Anyway this is not a big issue.
2. The bigger issue is that the image is vertically smaller than the sequence i.e. there is a little black space at the top and bottom. Why is this happening? The item properties of the image imported as a sequence is frame size:1024x576, dv-pal. anamorphic not checked.
thanks

thanks. I have uploaded the image imported into fce online at
http://ajaybrar.com/images/screenshot.png
As you can see there are the black bars at the top and bottom.
The file before import is at
http://ajaybrar.com/images/5001.png
Not sure if that helps though. But the sequence properties of the imported image has frame size 1024x576 with anamorphic not checked. Is this correct? the frame size of the other anamorphic clips is 720x576. So my master sequence is 720x576, anamorphic and into that i am putting the imported image which is 1024x576. Could that then be causing the problem? In that FCE resizes it...

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