Problem with AIC aspect ratio in iDVD

I can't figure out why my 4:3 movie will only play stretched to 16:9 in the iDVD "Widescreen Preview".
I've exported my iMovie 09 project to two AIC files. These are identical except for the size, one was set to 720x540 and the other to 1440x1080. (I'm trying to determine if there is any difference in these once encoded to DVD.) Both sizes were set using the "custom" option at export. Both files play properly in QT. The smaller file previews properly (pillarboxed) in iDVD. But -surprise - the larger file gets stretched to widescreen.
I've looked for every imaginable setting that might affect this but no luck. Any ideas?
Sorry about cross-posting this here in addition to iDVD forum, but I need a fix.

Think it's custom dimensions/fit to dimensions

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