Video clip skewed outside of drop zone...

All,
The roadshow idvd6 theme (widescreen) has 6 drops zones -- when I drag clips to the small zones in the upper right, they drop fine, but are about 40 pixels out of the frame -- like they are not lined up. You can see the movie clip hanging out of the drop zone frame and the drop zone itself is black.
I tried to rre-install idvd and the base theme has the same problem. Another imac I have works fine and the them and drop zones behave correctly. I copied the themes from that imac to the mac pro with the problem and I still have the problem.
Anybody have this problem?
John
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 30" monitor.
G4 dual 1ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9) 30" monitor.

I don't think it's a bug to be honest. But it may have to do with a proper setting/s on the monitor / TV.
Mine works very well so I think we can perhaps narrow it down to the widescreen 16:9 mode. Does this also happen for you in standard 4:3 or not?

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