Widescreen preview issues

I am not able to burn my movie in 4.3 even though all settings set at this. I have taken on board all suggestions re audio AIFF code and made short samples of movie and gone through the iDVD process, dropping into frame , choosing theme etc. All these samples came out positive standard preview. So I ran the complete movie again but ended up with the awful distorted 16.9 ( not a good look on TV!) Yes I have been able to render DVDs in the past this is a new problem for me and I have spent days on it and life's too short for all this. Anyone got any ideas??

Thank you for your suggestion. I will try what you said. For the record the TV aspect and DVD player are both set at 4.3. What I am experiencing is a problem with the iDVD preview. If it presents as "WIDESCREEN PREVIEW" then when I burn it comes out at 16.9. This happens even when all settings and preferences are 4.3. So I painstakingly took segments out of my movie slideshow ( made in Photo to Movie ) and sent to iDVD, as this process is shorter than sending the whole movie...2 to 3 hrs. Each section included an audio track which I ran at AIFF and AAC just to be sure. All the segments converted to a 4.3 preview, there was only one that didn't so i changed the audio to AAC and it was fine. So I thought good that was the problem and made the movie slideshow complete once more, but it still previewed as widescreen. I have been using P2M for months now with no problems up to now , although i must admit did have several issues when using iPhoto slideshow, not good at all! Thats why I purchased the P2M software. Sorry to ramble on but I feel at a complete loss with all this.
Just one thing, will this process you gave me enable me to eventually burn a DVD to view at 4.3 aspect on the TV? Thanks again for your time.

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Quoting...
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