Shooting "squeezed" 16:9 does not look quite right when exported to 16:9

Hard to put a title which would cover the problem well, probably hard to describe it well, too, for an amateur:)
Anyway, I have a cheap JVC GR-D320E which serves me well as a beginner´s camera (for the price I gave) but when I shoot in what it calls 16:9 mode which I have understood it is not true 16:9 but in a way squeezed, and I import this to FCE (set to Anamorphic PAL), it all looks good within FCE but when I export it using QT Conversions and setting the proportions and size manually to what is supposed to be the right dimensions for 16:9 PAL (1024x576 if I remember it correctly) it does not look right. The persons "grow shorter and fatter", if you know what I mean.
I have tried to change the dimensions in QT Pro, but the problem is to find the correct ones. I also wonder why this happens and if there actually are "correct" proportions which then would be something between 16:9 and 4:3 or if I am doing something wrong?
When I export not using QT Conversions, the result is 4:3 which isn´t right, either...
Well, hope I have been able to describe this in a way which is possible to understand...

I want to export it for several purposes; all you mention, in fact; to put on the web, to play on the monitor and to make a DVD. As I mentioned, when I exported as a QuickTime movie, it came out as a 4:3 and that of course, looked awful.
Using the conversions, I can scale it as I want to, but to me 16:9 does not look exactly right, either. That is why I wanted to know if there are some proportions in between the 4:3 and 16:9 which is appropriate for footage which is not filmed in true 16:9 but in this option which cheaper cameras have.
The article you linked to, did not tell anything new, alas.

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