Video stretching bug

Ever since the last ipod update (when they added the fullscreen option) my videos have been playing STRETCHED to wide screen dimensions. When I have the widescreen function enabled in the video settings menu it plays the fullscreen videos STRETCHED to the widescreen dimensions with the top and bottom parts of the screen blacked out. When I disable the widescreen option it is still stretched to widescreen dimensions and it plays it on the whole screen and just cuts off the two edges.
Has anyone else had this problem? I only have it on videos I have put on the ipod, not the ones I downloaded from itunes. They worked fine before the most recent update, but I've been having this problem ever since. I tried changing them from being movies in the 'video kind' to being tv shows (like the ones I downloaded from itunes) but that didn't fix it.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Is it a bug apple is aware of that they are working on for the next update?
Can I roll my ipod driver back to before they added the widescreen option?

No, the problem is that it is video from a normal ratio source (a tv show) and that the ipod is stretching it INTO a widescreen format; distorting the image.
When I leave widescreen on it distorts it and shows the widescreen with the blacked out top and bottom. When I turn widescreen off it is still distorted and it chops off the sides.

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