Video is stretched in Encore

Created a video at D1 res (720x486). When I import it into Encore it scales the video larger than that resolution so that all of my Title safe graphics are not title safe anymore. Here is an example of the video in AE and in Encore:
http://www.thrill-media.com/temp/Encore.jpg
You can clearly see the video is larger than it should be in Encore. Does Encore NOT support NTSC video any more or have I done something completely wrong?
Thanks,
Curtis

In case you are sadly following this saga...
After mucho many hassles I got this thing working. I think I am in weird codec territory which Encore does not... uhhhh... appreciate! :) My other NL editor outputs a 10 bit YUV D1 uncompressed 720x486 avi. I had to re-save the file from AE as a 720x480 uncompressed avi, then load that into Premiere and export as 720x480 uncompressed avi. Once it came out of Premiere it worked fine.
I thought the QT was going to work fine (in a short test it did) but once I rendered out the final movie it would not work at all. I don't know why but I think the overall length: 1hour 15 minutes may also have had something to do with my problems. Because, I do this all of the time with smaller projects.
If you run into something like this...video oversized out of safe areas...be sure to look at your codecs and be sure that you are at 720x480.
That is (hopefully) my wrap-up!
Thanks for the input!
C

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