Problems Importing 24 bit Sound Files

Hello, in both PrPro and Soundbooth I'm having some real difficulty importing some wonderful music recorded in 48k, 24 bit format.  Here is a screenshot containing some information about the file:
I am able to play this music on the little QuickTime music player (shown above), but cannot import into anything in the Adobe suite. 
There is a menu setting in Soundbooth about selecting either 16 bit format or 32 bit format.  Since this was recorded in 24 bit format, I think that may be important.
In PrPro, I get a message "File format not supported". 
The screenshot above describes it as a "Sound Designer II" "kind" of file.  The fellow recorded it on some old, old Apple equipment.
Is there a way I can import this footage into Soundbooth or PrPro with a minimum of generation loss from any file conversion?
Is there another type of workaround?
I'm reluctant to trouble him for a redo.   24 bit was the highest he could go on his equipment.
Thanks for your help,
Matt Dubuque
100 Trees

Thanks Colin,
I downloaded the program and I note that in its preferences it asserts that the maximum spectrogram display level is 8kHz. 
Does this mean that I have a high bandpass filter at 8000 Hz and anything above that is cut off?  I would be pretty reluctant to go that route because this film seems likely to be shown in a theatre and quite a few of us can hear above that pitch.
On the other hand, the playback sounds pretty good, so perhaps this is just a VIDEO output display limitation of the original audio waveform that may actually be from 20Hz to 20KHz for example.
Any thoughts on that?
Also, Memory is of no concern, only fidelity and resolution and probably conformance to an RIAA curve or close to it.
Given that, of the three file types you mentioned, WAV, PCM, or AIFF, is it true that .wav. would offer the highest fidelity, irrespective of memory required to store it?
Thanks!
Matt

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