CS2 Error Opening Illustrator

"Could not complete your Request because there is not enough memory (RAM)"
Cannot "place" pictures in the illustrator program. Students need to be able to scan drawings and place them into illustrator to digitize.
Any solutions on how to fix this?

We are using P4 with 2G RAM, 80G HD, WinXP SP3,
I had a student try to place, open and copy a .jpg file into Illustrator and none of the ways worked.
1) Opened Illustrator selected FILE, PLACE and then directed to get photo. It shows an empty box.
2) Starting from the .jpg file, right click OPEN WITH Illustrator, error message says insufficient RAM to complete this operation.
3) Started with .jpg, right click COPY then opened Illustrator, started a new blank document and then PASTE.
None of the above worked.
I need for the students to be able to use scanned images and photos as templates for recreation and digitizing in Illustrator. All of the images and scans are low res so it is not a matter of the file being too large.

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