Photoshop CS4 Help?!

Hi guys,
I'm doing a project for school with Adobe Photoshop CS4. The project involves me cutting out pieces of various images, and pasting them into one main image. It was going fine for the first ten or so image pieces, but the last time I tried to do it, something very strange happened. When I pasted the piece of an image into my main image, it came out red and transparent. I have no idea why it's doing this because I didn't change anything or do anything differently. What can I do to fix this? Please help me as best as you can. Thanks, guys! :)

Yes, that's what I did! Quick Mask mode was on. Thank you so much!

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