Pasted bitmaps have odd sizes

When I paste a bitmap (i.e., a rectangular selection) from Photoshop CS4 into Illustrator CS4, the bitmap ends up with a strange size in Illustrator. For example, I just copied a 16x16 pixel selection from Photoshop, and it ended up being 15.998x15.998 pixels in Illustrator. Both the Photoshop and Illustrator documents are set to 72 dpi, and use pixel units.
Is there a reasonable explanation for this behavior? Is there any way to get bitmaps to paste into Illustrator with their correct (original) pixel size?

Mylenium,
Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, I tried what you suggested, and it made no difference to the behavior I'm seeing. I even restarted Photoshop after making the change to "Traditional" and started a new document.
Just to be clear, here are the steps I'm taking:
1. Use Alt+PrintScreen to screen-snap a window on my system.
2. In Photoshop, do New Document and use the Clipboard preset.
3. Paste the screen snap into my new Photoshop document.
4. Make a 16x16 pixel rectangular selection in Photoshop and copy it to the clipboard.
5. Go to an empty document in Illustrator.
6. Paste the bitmap into Illustrator. In the toolbar, it says: Image Embedded RGB PPI:72.009 W:15.998 H:15.998
7. Click the Image link in the toolbar, and go to the Link Information dialog. It says: Transform: Scale: 99.988%, 99.988%
8. Resize the bitmap to 16x16 pixels. PPI now changes to 72, and the Link Information dialog now says Scale: 100%, 100%.
I get the same result whether I set Photoshop's "Point/Pica Size" setting to PostScript (72) or to Traditional (72.27).
Since both Photoshop and Illustrator are set to 72 pixels per inch, why can't Illustrator get the size exactly right? I understand that I can manually resize the bitmap to 16x16 pixels, but that's annoying. These products are supposed to be part of an integrated suite; they should work better together than this.
- Rand

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