Program monitor blurry but source monitor is clear

Please...I have imported tifs at 1280x800, and they look clear in the source monitor, but when placed on the timeline, they look slightly blurry...noticeably blurry. Video does the same thing. What setting am I missing? Thx.

Sorry Jeff and Jim...actually OTS means over the shoulder...we used it in tv news...so it is a box that is superimposed like a picture in picture over the shoulder of an anchor...and we need it to be 4x3, or so we thought, because that is close to the size that the powerpoint is kicking out...hence the 1280x800. I can make the OTS any size we need to, just so it doesn't squish the words or distort them.
So the final product is widescreen 16:9, with a 4:3ish box (OTS)...all being used for online classes, final screen size yet to be determined, in flash.
That said, I cannot get a clean image in my timeline, even though the source monitor shows the image very clearly.
I would love to email one of the powerpoint images to someone who is willing so that they might load it up in premiere and help me out with the correct numbers for correct sizing out of powerpoint and into premiere.
I'm an old AVID cutter, (story editor for food network and HGTV for the last 8 years) trying to switch it up because premiere CS3 seems pretty powerful as I get more and more into it, and my avid seems slower than usual, undependable.
I dont know the terminology as well as I should, depended on IT guys a little too much on our production systems...now I am on my own with relatively new machines and, well, it FEELS like I am on my own! any help you could provide, it goes without saying, would be a Godsend. Willing to learn. Need to get this project fixed, and soon. thx.

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More information needed for someone to help... please click below and provide the requested information
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30 for screen shot instructions
Free programs to get file information for PC/Mac http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
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What is your exact graphics adapter driver version?
Have you gone to the vendor web site to check for a newer driver?
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ATI Driver Autodetect http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool
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-http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/error---preludevideo-play-modules.html
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