Imported graphics partially obscurred by black rectangles in PDF

When I PDF a document with a lot of imported graphics, alot of the graphics are partially obscurred by black rectangles. I'm using the Adobe PDF print driver. Many of the graphics are BMPs (I inherited the files, I know it's a dumb format to use).
I've tried reimporting the graphics but still no luck.
I'm using structured Frame + SGML 6.0.
Any ideas?

Distiller 7.0
FrameMaker+SGML 6.0p357
Windows XP Pro SP 2
Acrobat 7
(Don't know about the updates)
It's running in emulation mode on a UNX box, so perhaps that makes a difference, but I think it has something to do with the graphics, since they don't always show the black box.

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