Importing Graphics - Word 2008 to InDesign - Maintaining links?

Hi!
I have an issue where documents are prepared in MS Word 2008 (Mac OS 10.5.7) and then imported/placed into InDesign CS3. The word document has inline graphics which are placed into InDesign as embedded images, however I want them to remain unembedded and linked to the original graphic files when the word doc is imported into InDesign (I have all the graphics in a sub folder within the same folder as the word doc and the InDesign file).
Under InDesign CS2 with Word 2004 I could import a word doc into Indesign and maintain links to graphics (rather than embedded graphics) as long as the graphics were inserted into MS Word via 'Insert > Picture > From File" and then I Ticked 'Link to File' and unticked 'Save with document'. I have done exactly the same thing with MS Word 2008 but I get embedded empty graphics frames in Indesign rather than links to the images.
I then tested Word 2008 with Indesign CS2 and still had the same problem, so am now wondering if it is an issue with Word 2008 or the newer OS?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!!!

Thanks Bob.
This has made me realise that the documents are being supplied to me as .doc rather than .docx even though they are being created in MS Word 2008 (they have a compatibility setting so that they save as an earlier word version - I need to resolve this).
Am I correct in assuming from what you have said that if I have got the images at the quality I want when they are linked into the Word document they will firstly not lose any quality in Word and secondly when they are embedded in the InDesign document there will be no loss of quality?
I ask this question because basically I am regularly updating large online PDFs - starting with an MS Word master and then importing this into InDesign, making layout adjustments and then exporting to PDF. I therefore need to make the process as quick as possible (which I have done through a number of Applescripts) and one of the things I want to speed up is to have to manually go through and relink the images each time. So either I need some quick way of linking the images, OR (if I've understood you correctly) not worry about relinking the images because there is no loss of quality from when we link and embed the graphics in MS Word to when they become embedded in InDesign? This would mean the only time I would have to relink the images is when we do a printed version (which requires better quality images)???

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