Low quality graphics from screenshots

I did some full screen screen shots to use in Keynote (using apple + shift 3). These are pict files which look perfectly fine when I open them in preview. I then dragged and dropped them into Keynote, and both in preview mode and when I play the show, the graphics appear fuzzy and low quality - as if they are JPEGs converted to the lowest quality setting.
Any fix for this? Other than that KN works great and its easy to use. But these graphics are really bad.
[ Imac G5/ 20 in / 2 g ram : monitor at 1680x1050]

Why are they saved as picts? I save mine as PNG and they look fine in Keynote. You could also use TIFF or PDF and those should look pretty good too. I think the problem is that other images scale much better than pict does.
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http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/131
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