Extremely slow opening B&W PDF's in Photoshop CS5

I import many pdf files into photoshop so I can in turn resize and save them as jpg's. What I don't understand is that all of them are the same page size, and are being opened at the same 300dpi setting, but for some reason the Black & White pages take FAR longer to open in Photoshop. Sometimes it takes the grayscale pages up to 5 minutes to open! But the color ones open right up in like 15 seconds. I would think it would be the opposite. The PDFs are originally made in InDesign and are all saved by the same process. Any ideas on what I could possibly do to speed this process up would be greatly appreciated!

I can't yet guess at what might be going on, but I'm willing to try to open two files and see if I see the same thing happen - assuming you're willing to share two of the files (one color, one grayscale).
-Noel

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