(CS3) Images resize in InDesign to Photoshop copying

Hi everyone, hopefully you can help me out. I'm running Adobe Photoshop and InDesign CS3 on my Mac, and it's been working fine before - even this morning. Basically, I have images in InDesign with exact dimensions that I'm copying to Photoshop to work something out. This never happened before and it always worked fine, but now when I copy from InDesign to Photoshop the image sizes have sometimes increased fourfold.
For example, if I copy a 166x93 px image from InDesign into Photoshop, it comes up at 692x388 - before, it would copy at the same 166x93 size. Does anyone know why this is happening? The reason I ask is because not only is it annoying and I want to fix it for future ease-of-use, but I am trying to get some images into a specific size, but increasing them to the size the canvas is creating makes them bad quality. I know you can resize them smaller, but (and it's hard to explain) this isn't going to work for what I'm trying to achieve.
Thanks a lot for reading.

I would believe your last statement if I were working on a Mac. I don't give Windows machines that level of sophistication.
The only thing this HP is telling me is that it can't remember what I'm doing.
If something works once, it should work every time. If I copy something, it should be there when I paste it.
I'm not individually resizing my images, that's the whole point of the copy and paste thing that I'm doing.
I'm also not simply releasing the files to prepress.
I take the images which are assembled roughly into Indesign layouts by our designers as oversized high resolution package shots.
I copy them out, paste them into Photoshop and then layer and drop shadow them before placing them back into Indesign as flattened EPS files at 100%.
Seems like a RAM/hardware issue to me. Was just wondering if maybe someone else had run into this and come up with a solution.
Coming in here and having people tell me that copying and pasting is abnormal seems a bit odd and has me wondering what I could do differently.
Writing the Indesign file to a PDF is not a solution to my problem.
I'm aware that I can save the Indesign pages out as an EPS or PDF or simply edit the original file, but as I said before, that adds many steps to the process.
Anyway, thanks for your help Marian. I guess I'll dig around the forums some more.

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