Problems with quality of Widescreen layered menu

I'm trying to create a layered menu in dvd studio pro at 16:9 ratio. Every time I import my photoshop document it looks really pixelated. I've tried saving my photoshop document with the following settings:
NTSC DV Widescreen Preset (720x480) - when I import into dvd studio pro and place into a layered menu it reads it as 720x480 and I get pillars on each side. Is there a way to make dvd studio pro interpret the photoshop document as anamorphic?
I've also tried recreating my photoshop document in the ratios below. Each time it fills the entire widescreen but it looks pixelated and crappy.
1280x720
864x480 (both square and reg pixels)
720x576
It looks awesome in Photoshop then looks terrible in DVD Studio Pro. I've recreated in 4:3 and my graphics look great. It's just when I do it in 16:9 where I run into the problems. Where am I going wrong? Please help if you can.
Thanks!!

I figured out the issue. This is for anyone who is having the same annoying issue.
If you want a standard definition 16:9 layered menu what you have to do is create your photoshop document at 720x480 widescreen. After you have it all created how you like in wide screen you have to then change your image to 720x480 (NOT WIDESCREEN!) It will looked stretched and distorted in photoshop. Import it into dvd studio pro and change the menu to widescreen. When you change to widescreen it will stretch your image to fit and by doing that it will no longer be distorted - nor will it look pixelated or have pillars.
This is a totally stupid issue that DVD Studio Pro should fix. Wow, what a headache.

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