Problems with Text Wrap

Hello,
I'm new and getting more and more frustrated trying to wrap text around a couple of images in InDesign.
I saved my picture file as, Save for Web & Devices in Photoshop, and in the text wrap options I clicked "wrap around object shape" and under contour options I chose Detect Edges. I don't know what I'm doing wrong and all of my searches for possible errors are coming up short.
Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?
Thank you so much for your help!

Err, is this related to scripting somehow? You know you are posting in the scripting forum?

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