Placing Illustrator or PDF files into Photoshop

Does anyone know where I'd find a good description as to the difference among placing bounding box, media box, crop box, bleed box, trim box and art box -- maybe even with some pictures or diagrams? (Photoshop Help is not very clear on this topic). Bounding box and media box make sense, but the description for the other choices are pretty nebulous.

Not sure what you mean. Are you even using any of the otehr box types? Only the media and bounding box are mandatory, if the others have not been defined e.g. by setting up page bleed in AI or ID, they are identical to the media box (overall printable area). Crop box only appears, when you crop pages post-creation in Acrobat to change their size when placed in print documents. Art boxes only appear, when you define more than one artboard in Illustrator, views in InDesign, respectively. At least that's the limited knowledge I can offer on the matter, as I'm too rarely doing anything with print...
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