Importing transparent images into Indesign

Hi guys,
Just started using Indesign cs6 and for the life of me can not work out how to import transparent pngs. All transparent images I import have their background changed to a white background. The image import options has an option to use transparency information, with either use white back ground (which is selected) or use file defined background colour.
I assume i should be using file defined background colour but its greyed out. Why is this option greyed out and how can I retain a transparent bg in my image? The image i'm importing is fireworks png file.
Cheers,
Ps. First post, so go easy on me

I don't have Fireworks and I haven't made any Fireworks PNG files.
I'm not sure how they work. But I believe that Fireworks PNGs can contain editable layers for Fireworks use only.
This may be part of the issue of the transparent background - but as I say I have very limited knowledge of Fireworks.
What I will say with some degree of comfort is that PNG is primarily a web format - and it's not a print format. Adobe InDesign is a page layout tool intended for Print on mechanical presses - and it's only recently it's been geared towards Web, ePub and Flash creation.
Perhaps the Fireworks PNG simply does not work with InDesign.
Can you save that Fireworks PNG from Fireworks to say a TIF of PSD? Which may be better for importing to InDesign.
The only other solution I can think of is to open that PNG file in Photoshop and save it as a Transparent PNG from there using File>Save for Web

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