Placing deep etched images into Illustrator

I am having problems when placing a deep etched image file into Illustrator CS2 from Photoshop CS2. When I place the file into Illustrator, it is not recognising the working path on the file, and is just coming in with a transparent rectangular background. This is a problem because I then have to place this Illustrator file into Framemaker, and when I print tiny dots are appearing around the image file (which I think is the background of the image that has been deep etched out). If anyone could help I would be very grateful. Thank you

Joshua,
Did you reinstall after upgrading to Yosemite?
In any case, you should update to 16.0.5.

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