Widescreen dimensions

I've been following these instructions - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1431891&tstart=150 - to stretch a video back to widescreen after it gets "squished" when I export it from FCE to a quicktime file. I had been using the dimensions given by the second poster in that thread - 874 x 480 . It worked great, and I've been happily burning widescreen DVDs for several weeks. But then yesterday I came across this apple article - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305337 - which says the proper dimensions are 853 x 480 . I subsequently found more variations on other websites...
So my question is, which of these is right??
Thanks!
Claire
(reposting this from the iDVD forum since I'm not sure that was the right place for it - sorry for the double post)

Great, thank you, I'll start using 853x480.
I have a related question that I asked a while ago but will ask again here, since I still haven't solved it. The widescreen DVDs I've made play fine on my friend's widescreen TV, but on mine they're letterboxed and stretched - they only play correctly DOUBLE letterboxed (bars on the top and bottom AND on the sides). I've uploaded some pictures that illustrate this...
Aspect ratio on TV set to "full": http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c184/katyw89/IMG_5925.jpg
Aspect ratio on TV set to "just" (I'm not really sure how that's different from full, they seem to produce the same image): http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c184/katyw89/IMG_5926.jpg
Aspect ratio on TV set to "4:3": http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c184/katyw89/IMG_5927.jpg
Note that the boy's head is stretched in the first two, and looks right in the third. Any ideas how to solve this would be greatly appreciated!
Claire

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