No 16:9 after exporting to iDVD

I had to use that horrible iMovie 08 to cut a movie. It is impossible to set chapter markers with that application, so I did it with Garageband. When I send the finished movie from Garageband to iDVD the 16:9 format is replaced by 4:3. Exporting the movie with manual settings the format is kept but the chapter markers are lost. How can I send the movie to iDVD in 16:9 without losing the markers?

Hi Tim,
thank you for your answer but I usually use iMovie 06 or FCP. This time I was forced to use iMovie 08 because the camcorder only had USB. I could not manage to transfer the footage neither into iMovie 06 nor Final Cut, only into iMovie 08. Furtermore, FCP doesn't recognize the '08 movie files as 16:9 and iMovie 06 produces errors when I try to add transitions (all these problems are discussed in the groups here without any solutions). The icing on the cake is this mentioned bug of iDVD.
The only solution I can see so far is given at http://www.mydvdedit.com/viewtopic.php?t=27&pg=forum,

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