Cant open a tiff photo retaining its transparent background

When I open a tiff photo that has a transparent background in Photoshop elements 7 it opens with a black background and even if I promote it to a layer it still has a black background and if I erase the background I lose part of the picture. Yet if I open the same photo in PhotoPlus x3 it opens with the transparent background with no problem. Is there a setting in elements that I have missed?

Try something like the following:
1. Open the tiff and promote to a layer.
2. Go to Select>Load Selection, if there is a section you can load,
then load it.
3. Go to Edit>Cut to remove the black background.

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What is the exact version of iPhoto? 9.4.2?
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