Grainy PDFs when placed into InDesign

Certain PDFs are becoming grainy with a lot of noise in InDesign CS3. Not all placed files, just certain ones. HELP! Any reason why?
Much appreciated!!

Joanie:
It's hard to say. Maybe you could post some pics.
It's unclear whether you're talking about printing out of InDesign (or exporting to PDF), or just your screen previews. For screen previews you could try selecting all and then right/control clicking on any element and selecting high-quality from the display performance.
If you're having trouble printing or exporting it might help the troubleshooter to do the above steps and see if they appear on screen in high quality display mode as grainy as they print.
J

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