Large PNG wont import into Illustrator

Hello all, this is not a new problem, Ive posted on it before and it was solved, temporarily, here.
Briefly, when I work with transparent PNG's in illustrator, there seems to be a limit to the size they can be and still import successfully into Illustrator.
So here I am working on a poster that requires a large photo to be imported and when I drag it to the artboard, it just does import.
If I try opening it in a seperate illustrator document, it wont open either.
Apparently its a PNG thing because I have been able to successfully open the same image in JPEG, problem is, I need the transparent background for my layout.
Someone told me that InDesign would function better in for this, but I am not familiar with it.
Does anyone know about this problem, ran into it, or solved it?
I appreciate any help you could offer!

Same issue however I am using CS5
  Model Name: Mac Pro
  Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores: 4
  L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
  L3 Cache: 8 MB
  Memory: 8 GB
Again like Flex, as a designer I do some things in Illustrator, but the PNG size limitation is really hurting a current project, that is if that is the problem.
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