Premiere Elements 8 - Still pictures in PE are blurred compared to original

My system is Intel Q6600 CPU, Windows 7 64bit, 6GB memory, 1TB C: drive, 2TB E:drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 video card, Premiere Elements 8, using Microsoft Office Picture manager to look at still originals.
The Premiere Elements 8 project settings include editing mode = DVNTSC and Frame size = 720H x 480V.
My issue is the still picture in PE is blurry compared to the picture viewed in MS Picture Manager. The pictures are either scanned or downloaded from web pages. Here is a list of pictures with their file size and pixels count:
Scaned Pics not as good in PE as original
Cecil about 1921 - 1.5KB - 954x1440 pixels
Stephson & Nancy Shirey - 147KB - 480x720 pixels
Cecil about 1927 - 678KB - 768x870 pixels
Cecil about 1928 - 736KB - 696x948 pixels
Cecil 193X - 1MB - 1044x1608 pixels
Ceceil HS basketball team - 2.4MB - 2070x1416 pixels
Cecil 1941 at gas station - 250KB - 924x1482 pixels
Cecil Marian 1942 gas station - 336KB - 1092x1746
pixels
Web Pics not as good in PE as download
Cotton_field 1928 - 372KB - 1600x960 pixels
Cotton plant 17KB - minor degrade - 350x304 pixels
Turner School 1919 - 22KB - 450x275 pixels
Douglas Aircraft Front - 299KB - 720x587 pixels
I burned a trial DVD to see if the picture quality would be better after processing onto DVD but it was not.
What can I do to improve PE picture quality?

Use Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to scale the pictures before you import into PreElements
Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798
Also, do be aware that photo dpi (dots per inch) does NOT translate to video... I don't have the exact number handy, but I think a DVD resolution video is "about" 72 dpi (BluRay is higher, but since I don't do BluRay I have not even a guess at picture resolution)

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http://imageshack.com/a/img545/1383/eb68.jpg
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