Importing a Camtasia AVI clip

I am doing some screen captures using Camtasia.  The captures look great as long as I play them in Camtasia or Windows Media Player or any other brand of media player.  When I import them into CS5 Premiere they lose quite a bit of quality and end up with small artifacts that look like smudges.
I'm something of a newbie at this so if I'm missing something easy I don't know it.  I've looked thru the Help files and this forum but didn't see anything that might have helped me.   Some other AVI files import into CS5 just fine so I'm thinking it must be something with either the CODEC I'm using or some video setting in Camtasia that needs to be optimized for Premiere.
Any suggestions?

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