Problem importing still photos taken off Internet

I want to use a few photos I've found on the Internet with my movie. Trouble is, when I click and drag them into iMovie, more often than not they turn out to be very weak images--all fuzzy and stuff. I checked the dimensions as well as the size, and most of them are quite big. But even the big ones end up being fuzzy and out of focus. Every now and then, though, a photo will be fine. What am I missing here? Thanks.

Check to make sure that when you download the image from the internet you are downloading the +actual picture file+ and not the thumbnail of the picture that is on the web page.
Hope this helps.

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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/730233
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More info about the issue. This is also a hit-and-miss error, as once you find a way that will appear to work and you say to yourself, "Finally! I figured it out!"
But once you go to the next photo to pull it in and get on with your project you find that you are pulling in multiple copies of the same picture as the one
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The last time that I created a project similar to this (a mix of video and stills) it worked just fine so that is even more of a head-scratcher for me.
I even went back and re-imported the pics that worked fine into the project that I am struggling with and they came in fine - no duplication. But vacation pics are the only copies I have and I just need to import these 20 shots and get to work on them.
I would be willing to let someone get my IP address and connect directly like my IT folks at work do so they could see what is going on with this.
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Don't tell us, tell them
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