Sony RAW - 16:9 aspect ratio: how to change to 3:2?

Hi,
I normally shoot in RAW on my Sony A700 with 3:2 aspect ratio and I've found a utility that will enable me to extract the HD jpeg that Sony embeds in every A700 RAW picture. These jpegs can be automatically extracted, put on an SD card and played back through my Panasonic HD TV - a quick and very attractive slideshow. So far, so good. However, using the 3:2 aspect ratio means that the embedded jpeg is 1620 x 1080 pixels not 1920 x 1080, so it doesn't fill the screen. If I change to shooting in 16:9, the extracted embedded jpegs are now 1920 x 1080 and do fill the screen.
The interesting thing is that the 16:9 format RAW file has still been captured in the 3:2 format and is the same size in MB, but there is, presumably, now a flag in the EXIF data which is used by Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 so that they display the RAW file as 16:9. Now DxO Optics Pro ignores this flag and displays the same RAW file in 3:2 format. I still want to process the RAW file in its 3:2 format (ie I don't necessarily want to lose the top and bottom of the picture).
The question, therefore, is whether there is any way that I can cause Lightroom (or Photoshop and Bridge) to ignore the flag indicating that a RAW file should be processed in 16:9 format?
Any help on this would be most welcome.
Ian

I am very surprised LR reads the tag. There is a fix. Convert your RAW file to DNG and then run DNG recover edges on it:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/contents/DNG-Recover-Edges.shtml
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