PrPro CS4 imported avi squeezed to 4:3

Hello all,
I am new to this forum and a very casual user of PrPro so bear with me.
I am a camera operator on movies and TV shows and am trying to collect clips of work via the internet and edit them in Premiere Pro. I currently have footage in a variety of formats including VOB, MKV and  Xvid AVI and am using River Past Video Cleaner to convert them to AVI. The file is being converted to AVI and I have tried a variety of codecs including DV, Cinepak and others but it always results in the images being squeezed from 16:9 into a 4:3 frame (black bars on left and right) when viewed in PrPro.
I know this is not the best method and welcome any advice. What tis the best type of file to use in PrPro? Which is the simpleist to convert? Should I not be using PrPro for this at all?
Thanks for your help,
Spencer
PrPro CS4 V4.0

As an aside, you might want to update CS4 to the latest version, CS4.2.1. One of the advantages that it gives will be the Importing of most FLV files, and also the Importing of 100% DVD-compliant (very important) VOB's. I think that both of those came in with CS4.1, but going with the latest will get the full feature-set.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - one frequent contributor here, RoboDog 2, has made some lists of Internet available Assets for testing of various formats/CODEC's. Do not recall a full chart of resources, and they are probably scattered about through multiple, separate threads, but if you look at his Profile, you can likely track down some of those threads. Also, he might drop by (he's about today), and be compelled to do a more formal chart of such resources from his notes.
[Edit] Nevermind. The RoboDog "is in the house." Not sure that he'll appreciate my making extra work for him though...
Message was edited by: Bill Hunt - Added [Edit]

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