Transfer Ana. 16x9 into 4x3 Letterboxed Sequence?!

I've done this in the past and for the life of me can't remember how!
All I want to do is transfer an Anamorphically shot and edited sequence into a 4x3 Sequence (so then it would be Letterboxed), to be able to export into as a 4x3 320 x 240 QT file.
I keep thinking that dragging the nested 16x9 sequnce into a 4x3 sequnce will work, but it doesn't.
Any help of info is much appreciated!
Frank
G4 Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.4.4)
G4 Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.4.4)

That's very odd that dragging the 16:9 sequence (into the 4:3 sequence) doesn't letterbox. I used to do this on almost a weekly basis and never had a hiccup.
Anyhow, any luck doing an Insert/Overwrite Sequence Content?
That is, drag the 16:9 sequence from the Browser into the 4:3 sequence as you would normally. But press and hold the Command key, then release the mouse button. You should see your sequence contents (aka the clips 'n stuff) in your 4:3 sequence. And they should be letterboxed.
If the clips aren't letterboxed, you might have some type of sequence corruption. Trying all this with a fresh 4:3 sequence might do the trick.

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Good experiment. Here's what happened...
I made a disc with just a single 4x3 asset. Into the DVD player, and it still filled the full 16x9 screen... distorted.
So I did the unthinkable... I pulled out my TV manual. There are 4 settings for the screen aspect. "normal" "full" "zoom" and "wide zoom". There's also an "autowide" function. Which is now and always has been , on.
The autowide function seems to work fine when watching TV. I switch to a channel that's 4x3, the screen displays 4x3, and when I click the screen button, it says the setting is "normal". Then I switch to an HD channel, the picture goes wide, and I click the button and it's changed to "full". So it appears the TV is switching properly, based on the input, at least when it comes to TV.
the same doesn't appear to hold true for the DVD player. I have to manually set the screen to "full" and then 16x9 material looks right, then when the 4x3 comes on, I have to set it to "normal" and it looks right.
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