Image quality degrades in published swf

I've built a Flash site for a freind who is a photographer.
There are over 100 images on the site that are imported jpegs. Most
of them look fine but two of them look very washed out when I
publish my swf even though in the Flash project file they have very
sharp contrast. These particular images are monochromatic. Is there
anyway to preserve the variation of tones in the published swf?
I've tried using them at maximum image quality, but had the
same result.
Any suggestions would be greatly apreciated.

I tried saving as a png, but I got the same result. It's like
my black becomes a dark grey and my midtones go light/
white.

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> I maintain a site for a photographer and as he added
more images the
> SWF got to be very large, so I split up the site and
used a main page
> to import the smaller SWF files into a target. However,
I found that
> all my clean crisp images become dull when imported but
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> sharp in the SWF itself. I tied to find all the JPEG
settings and
> push them up but still with no luck. Does anybody have
any insight to
> why this is happening?
>

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