Help!! Illustrator importing graphics

I have Illustrator CS5 (on mac) and ive run into a problem with importing graphics. I used to be able to import something and click on it with the direct selection tool and change the colours or remove sections if needed, now all I can do is click on it as a whole and not change anything.
I've gone through all the preferences and even reset to default and its not fixing the problem. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this?
Thanks,
Amber

Ok so im going to ask a dumb question, how do you break the link? Also these images I have on my computer, in the past i place them into an illustrator document, and have no issues changing the colours or deleting sections of them, now when i place the same images they are coming in as linked and I cant change then at all? Im not sure what preference I have changed to make this happen, is there any way to change it back so i dont have this issue?
Thanks
Amber

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