Viewing 16:9 on an ntsc montor

I was given a last-minute video piece to construct from a series of stills. The C.D. gave me the sequence and stills already thrown together. I opened it up and played it and the stills are being squashed on my NTSC monitor because somehow they are native 16:9. I tried changing the settings on the sequence but no go. Unfortunately the C.D. is currently somewhere over the US at 35,000 ft. and I can't ask her about it. Any ideas how to get the view on the NTSC letterboxed properly?

Michael Grenadier wrote:
"Load the attached fcp project and reconnect media (if necessary). Take a look at "grenadier sequence." Does it display correctly? I just dragged sequence one from the browser into a new standard DV (non anamorphic sequence). Now it looks like some of the original material in sequence 1 was 4:3 material so there's no reason why it should be used full screen. To make any of this material appear correctly reedit the original material into the sequence or copy and paste the clips from sequence 1 and then control click on the clips in the 4:3 timeline and choose remove attributes: basic motion and distort. Should work."
Michael--sorry not to get back to you sooner. I am once again rasslin' with this thing and up against something else (that later) however I wanted to thank you for looking at this and yes, your sequence looked perfectly, properly letterboxed. I did try the copy/paste and remove attributes but, YIKES, it removed all the moves given to all the stills. That wouldn't do.
Anyway, this turns out not to be the real issue, oddly. What is killin my buzz right now is--forget what it looks like on the NTSC--I can't get it to output to a QT movie in 16:9! It's either coming out 4:3 when I uncheck "Anamorphic 16:9" in the sequence settings; or, if I do check that, it comes out as 3:2. I've tried Export>Quicktime Movie and >Using Compressor... and >Using QuickTime Conversion...
The frame in the canvas window is definitely 16:9. Why doesn't it come out that way when I export telling it to retain the current frame size?
I, of course, have no idea. Do you?

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