Oversized Image in iDVD

Hi all.
I have created a DV Stream using QT Pro (it was orig. from FCE)... When I bring it into iDVD, it's cropped significantly on all sides.
Is there a setting I ought to change in order for it to play properly? - Either in FCE or QT?
Thanks,
Chris H.
ps/ it's a 4:3 music video.

Thanks for the reply, Tom.
I have found that the DV stream allows me to 'un-squish' the frame, which tends to show up in both QT and iDVD as 16:9 (squished AND cropped to 4:3 in iDVD!!)...
If there is a better way to handle this, I'm certainly not schooled in FCE enough to know how
My current workflow: Export>Quicktime, then I check 'make video self-contained,' and name the file. I open this file in Quicktime, and it ends up looking 16:9 (different pixel ratio, I've been told), so I searched these forums and found that I must export as DV stream and change the aspect ratio there.
It works, but...
...about 10% of the frame top and bottom (5% evently on each of the four sides, if you will) is cropped when played on a TV.
I actually posted the same question on iDVD 5 forums, and I did get a "dude, you're SOL"-type of response. So it sounds like I'm SOL (as TVs simply do that automatically, I'm told.
Sorry for the novel.
-Chris H.

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