Accurately placing AI files into Indd - CS 3

I am redoing my business cards and for the life of me I can not figure out how to ACCURATELY get my AI business card images (front and Back) into an INDD Avery business card template. I am going to use the two side printable Avery business cards on my HP 2605 DN.
When I place the image either as an .ai or .pdf file the image is not accurately placed. (It is placed in the upper left hand corner. Fitting it to content or frame does not give me the same layout proportion as the design. Both the AI file and INDD place holders are the same size.
When I place the AI image into an Avery AI business card template I can place it as an image, or media etc. I do not see any place in INDD that gives me the same option. With INDD I can print both sides on my printer.
If the source and destination are the same size why is it not placing accurately.?
Thanks in advance.
Rich

This
It is placed in the upper left hand corner
suggests to me you are placing it inside a rectangle that's already somewhere on your page, OR that rectangle was selected at the time you selected an image to place. InDesign tries helpfully to do exactly what you appear to be doing (it's a fairly standard way of working).
In general, if you place an image into InDesign, it gets placed with the left corner on the position where you click, at 100% scaling.
You can override this behaviour by de-selecting the "Replace Selected Item" checkbox in the "Place" dialog, and by being careful not to click onto an existing frame.

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