Imported stills come in as sequence

Sometimes when I import stills into my AE projects they come in as normal .jpegs or .psd.  Other times they come in as Photoshop sequence images that I can't use.  There must be a preference item that will allow me to defeat that type of import, right?  Otherwise, what should I do to get around this. I have AE CS3.  Thanks for any help.

See the "Import a single still image or still-image sequence" page of After Effects Help. Note the checkbox with the red circle around it in the image on that page.

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