Making adjustments to still images in PS crashes FCE

When I drop still pictures into my project (tiffs), sometimes they need a little tweaking back in Photoshop to look just right. So, I hold down the control key and click on the clip, and in the box that pops up I choose Open In Editor. That opens the original still picture in Photoshop, and I make the necessary adjustments there.
But after dismissing Photoshop and returning to Final Cut Express, first I get the little watch symbol, which I assume means that FCE is accepting the changes to the clip, and then the beachball starts spinning, and it spins forever. The only way to get out of it is to force-quit FCE. In the Force-Quit window, FCE is shown in red with the note that it is "not responding," which means it's definitely stuck, and no amount of waiting for the beachball would do any good.
I've had to force-quit FCE several times now like this, and when the program opens back up, the results in the clip vary. Sometimes the changes I made in FCE are there in the clip. Other times the changes are not shown. Sometimes if I double-click the clip up into the Viewer, I see the changes there in the Viewer, but not in the Canvas.
Sometimes I can force the clip in the Canvas to show the changes by removing transitions from it, rendering, and then replacing the transitions and rendering again. But often when I do this, the changes are seen ONLY in the part of the clip that was rendered, and not in the rest of it.
Is this a glitch in the program, or am I doing something wrong?
Tom B.

Tom,
Thank you for your help. I am making progress. For the first time I was able to work in DV-NTSC Easy Setup.
My original image: 1 MB jpg, 1020 X 1419 - a client scanned I am guessing 600 dpi - since this was a 4 X 6 print.
After testing I had good results with adding the 1 pixel vertical blur you suggested to this original file, still over 1 MB and dimensions same. Swimming was next to nothing.
When I resized 720 X 540 the image was distorted (I followed your link and thought "unconstrained" was to be de-selected...perhaps not?, haven't retested yet.). When I changed the aspect ratio in Motion in FCE to 60 the image was normal AND I lost the "swimming". This file is 720 X 540, 504 KB.
Is the answer lying in perhaps the file was way too big? Doesn't make sense to me, but I don't code programs
Thank you so very much! I will be glad to be able to begin working with the tools of FCE.
I DO set the QT Conversion to "High". Is this better than "Best"?
Thanks, again,
Brenda
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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