Incorrect aspect ratio of display to monitor ?

I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else; I completed a website
and the client said that she had heard from a friend that her site looked distorted and no others did. She will not give any information as to the person, the machine, browser - anything. I tested the site on IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. I tested it on a variety of resolutions, on PCs and Macs. I went to Best Buy and proceeded to test the site on 20 different computers. The only way I could get a distorted view was changing the resoluton to an aspect ratio that was out of line with the monitors aspect ratio. ALL websites looked distorted then, but I am being told that this person reports that only mine is. As there is no way I can verify this finding, I am wondering if this has happened to anyone else. The client won't pay until this is resolved.
The site in question is www.alexandraduran.com. It is pretty straight forward although it has some quirks due to client request (against advice).
Thanks for any answers, guesses or suppositions.

Thanks for both your comments. I agree on the height - particularly
in the menus - it causes it not to work at all on an iphone for example. P
art of the problem on this site were some restrictions becuase the client wanted to maintain the site herself and a good
bit of the design editing lent itself to code "I hae me doots" about. The menu fix is a quick one on the style sheet but I am concerned that both of you found errors. The code validated in Dreamweaver CS4,the platform I wrote it in. So ... I couldn't find the errors. I also didn't see any "errors on page" messages while running it live. Where should I be looking ?
Thanks for your efforts.
Regards,
Kurt

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Michael,
sorry to disagree, but for sure I was not clear, and the topic is quite complex. So I decided to provide an overview (as much as I can...) of the various combinations of clips inserted into various sequences with all settings - possibly on my web site (I'm afraid other posters are getting bored about all this math).
But since this is taking quite a bit of time, let me just tell you now where I disagree about your findings. When I'll have my overview completed I hope that will better explain what I mean.
_Your point 1_.
I'm pretty sure you (unwillingly) are importing your 16:9 square pixel NTSC clip into a +4:3 CCIR pixel NTSC sequence+ (not your original 16:9 anamorphic NTSC sequence). Please check your sequence settings by selecting the sequence in the browser in list view and reading the Frame Size, Pixel Aspect, and Anamorphic fields.
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_Your point 2_.
Here I suppose the sequence is +16:9 CCIR pixel NTSC+ which has PARseq = 853/720 = 1,1852.
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_Adjust formula_.
I think this formula in your earlier message is incorrect: Aspect Ratio (in Motion/Distort) = - 100 * (1/Adjust-1) if Adjust ≤ 1; seems like the formula: Aspect Ratio (in Motion/Distort) = 100 * (Adjust-1) if Adjust ≥ 1 works at all times including <1 as follows 100*(.875-1)=-12.5.</div>
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I suspect that the data readout in QT 10 is questionable. According to the Z1U manual, the camera records at 1440x1080, QT and FCP have this correct, but MediaInfo Mac does not. But the display raster information, as read by QT 10, has changed from 1920x1080 to 1888x1062.
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My conclusion? Your movie is fine, there was no Pixel Aspect Ratio manipulation. The data readout in QT 10 is wrong. Sounds like a bug to me. I'd say MediaInfo Mac also has a problem--maybe they are both "drinking from the same poisoned well" somewhere deep inside the code.
Last resort: if you have access to an older version of QT, try getting the readout from that. I'm going to. If you'd like to know the results, let me know.
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