Leopard user: please test themes of iMovie 6.0.4 with 4:3 DV

Hello,
it looks as nobody has a solution for my problem with themes. Either nobody uses themes any longer or there is no one who had this problems and knows a solution. To be sure I would like to have someone test the following:
- ingest a few minutes DV video (4:3 aspect ratio)
- place clips onto the timeline
- add a lower third of the "Passage" theme using a part of the video for the drop zone
- apply this clip after positioning the playhead in a clip in the timeline
Does iMovie render this clip using 4:3 aspect ratio or do you get a varying letterbox?
Is the rendered clip brighter than the original?
Is the rendered clip placed at the playhead position or at the end of the sequence?
Please post results to this thread.
Thanks,
Dirk

I have been using Mac OS X 10.3.9 with iMovie HD 6.0.3 so I haven't been able to use the themes which need at least 10.4 before.
Anyway, I jumped straight to 10.5 two months ago so now I can test it.
Yes, I see the same issues (PAL):
I get narrow black letterbox bands at top & bottom and the rendered clip brighter than the original (the rendered clip is also deinterlaced with blend mode).
Is the rendered clip placed at the playhead position or at the end of the sequence?
I didn't quite understand that. The rendered clip begins at the start of the underlying media clip.

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