First a little background to help you understand.
Widescreen is 720x480, it's just the pixel aspect ratio that's different. By pixel aspect ratio, we mean the size of each little square that makes up the video - in widescreen, each pixel is stretched out when played back, so that the image is wider.
Now when you export 4:3 video (aka "FULL" Screen) that's been imported into a 16:9 (aka WIDEscreen), you get bars on each side of the screen. If you import 4:3 into a 16:9 project, you get black bars on each side of the video too - can you confirm that this is the case.
The problem is that these black bars take up some of your 720x480 resolution, so your video quality will actually be reduced. Unfortunately I don't know of a way to change the project settings.
Here's what I would do. Start a new project with the correct settings. Now go file > import and browse to your pproj (Premiere Project file), and import that. You should see a new folder in your Project window. Open that, then drag the sequence to the timeline.
Hey presto.
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