Grainy Imported Images

I'm using IDCS5 and imported three jpg images from a professional photographer, but they show up grainy. I've tried re-saving the images as a tif file and re-importing, but get the same results. My default screen setting is High Quality, and this hasn't happened with any other images I've imported within the same document (or any other document for that matter). When I open the images in Photoshop, they are perfect, hi-res images, no grain. Any clue as to what is going on with the imports?

When printing out of ID, the Send Data setting was set at the default "Optimized Subsampling"; however, I tried the "All" setting, and there was a very slight difference in the two prints in that the "All" setting print was slightly darker than the "Optimized" print. In my experience, that makes sense to me as higher resolution images tend to print a little darker due to the extra data being uploaded to the print device.
I did print from the PS file, and it was closer to the "All" setting in ID. These prints are acceptable, but it still doesn't explain why the image looks so grainy when its imported into ID. Thanks for the tip on the print settings; I'll have to use the "All" setting when the quality of images comes into question.

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