IMovie 11 and still photos

I'm having an issue importing photos into a video I'm producing. When I bring them in, they do not show up upon playback; all I get is a blank screen. I've inserted other stills into this video earlier in the process but now it's not "accepting" any others.

They're JPEGs. And this question led me to a discovery:
The photos from my iPhone work without an issue but the photos that were supplied to me by an outside source are inconsistent. At first I thought it was a size thing as my iPhone photos were between 1.1 and 1.4 MB while the other-source photos ranged from 33 KB to 100 KB, but that turned out not to be the case as the 33 KB photo and the 100 KB photo didn't work but the 92 KB and 95 KB did work.
What am I missing?!

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