Widescreen QT movie squished in iDVD 08 16 X 9 project

I've seen this question in a few forums but have yet to find a satisfactory solution. Widescreen movies look squished on iDVD 08 DVDs. Here's what I've been doing:
I edit and export a widescreen QT movie in FCP 6.0.4 (from a DV source).
I open the movie using QT and change the video track properties as detailed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179
When viewing the movie in QT, it is in the proper 16 X 9 aspect ratio.
I create a new iDVD project and make sure it's widescreen. The theme is widescreen, the menu looks widescreen.
I add the 16 X 9 QT movie into the IDVD project and it looks squished from side to side, with grey bars appearing on the right and left sides of the movie's frame. This is seen on my computer screen as well as my widescreen TV (and my DVD player's settings are correct for the display). When I play the disc using my Mac's DVD player program, the screen shrinks from the widescreen menu to the squished banana-headed-people movie.
What gives? What's the correct settings and workflow to display my widescreen movies correctly on iDVD-burned discs?
Thanks for any help!

Pretty sure DVDSP will let you set the flags for 16:9 "manually"
From the DVDSP manual
SD DVD Menus, Tracks, and Slideshows
• Display Mode: Choose the default aspect ratio to use when creating menus, tracks,
and slideshows in SD projects. You can choose from 4:3, 16:9 Pan-Scan, 16:9
Letterbox, and 16:9 Pan-Scan & Letterbox.
16:9 Pan Scan & Letterbox: You can have up to 12 buttons.
Since I'm not a DVDSP pro, so you might want to ask in that forum!

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