Widescreen project too wide for my widescreen TV?!

Hi everyone!
So I'm going nutz and have read a bunch of other threads on this but most of it is way over my head. Can someone help out a layman?
I just made a movie on iMovie and then moved it to iDVD. I am using iLife 08. The projects (the movie and dvd) were both widescreen. Everything was great! Looked great on the computer etc... But then I played the dvd on my widescreen TV and the top and bottom of the picture (including titles I had put on the bottom of the screen using the imovie templates) had been cut off. Not letter boxed but rather they seemed to not fit on the screen. I tried changing my tv settings but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone know what might be up? I also tried to burn the dvd as a standard 4:3 project and the resulting DVD still had the top and bottom cut off. Is this an issue with my DVD/TV?
thanks guys!!
E

On your DVD player, go to settings and find the Video area. Find aspect ratio and change that to 16:9.

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