Why s ome 4:3 projects appear 16:9 in iDVD project

I just finished editing 7 projects in FCP 5. All shot in 4:3 mode. Edited each in FCP. Exported them as Quicktime movies. Dragged all seven into an iDVD theme. 5 play back fine (4:3) and 2 are stretched into widescreen (16:9).
Made a test DVD and same results. 5 "regular" and two widescreen.
All appear normal (4:3) when played in FCP. All appear normal if played back directly with Quicktime player. Also tried a second iDVD theme and selected to "keep" in 4:3 mode. Same problem resulted.
Any suggestions on what might be going on and how I can what appears to be 4:3 in FCP to play back 4:3 when dragged into an iDVD project?
Much thanks for any feedback.

Thanks for getting back so quickly. I assume you mean the templates in iDVD. When opening the template (new ones) it asks if you want 4x3 or 16x9. I chose 4x3. Within the template there are 7 projects that I dragged as Quicktime movies exported from FCP5. 5 five were fine and 2 stretched to a 16x9 size.
So I doubt the template choice would be the problem.
Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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