Grey Background Error

Hello! I have had a book printed with lulu before with no problem.  But this time, some of the illustrations in my book randomly have a grey background, when they should be white.  I am confused because every single illustration comes from the same PSD file when i was making them, so they all have precisely the same white background.  When I open the individual images up in Photoshop to check the background colour, they are all the same, all exactly white.  When I open the PDF images in Photoshop, they are all white, all 100%.  I don't understand why it is that just some of them turn up with grey backgrounds in the printed copy... Anybody got advice?  If you need to see anything to understand what I'm describing, please let me know

Thanks for the suggestions
Is the best thing for me to do is try something else besides JPGs,
They work for me (at 300 or more DPI). I doubt they remain as jpgs once a file is converted to PDF anyway.
and select "lossless compression" when saving out the PDF?
I use Word and I have never actually changed the defaults on Word's Save As PDF, and they are > Standard (publishing for printing) - Page Range [All] - Document - Document Structure Tags - and the ISO option.
The original files are JPG yeah.  I put them together using Photoshop.  But - all files are in one master PSD file when I am working on them, so they all have precisely the same background, and I am just switching out the layers I am working on above that background, which is why this has me scratching my head.  They are all precisely the same colour, but a few of them come out grey when printed.
I assume you Merge all Layers?
I compile the JPGS in OpenOffice.
If all the images are in one file, how are you creating a Word Docx with them?
 

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