Resolution of Imported Photos

I've just finished importing a whole ton of old photos from my old PC to my mac, they're sitting on my desktop. When I open them with Preview, they appear at their full resolution, problem free. As soon as I import them into iPhoto, the resolution suddenly drops to about 240x320.
How do I change the settings so that the resolution of these photos will remain as high as they were when taken?

First off, I should correct my error. The resolution is 270x360. Now when I import photos for some reason, they appear to be working at the regular resolution, but I still have a problem: here's what happened.
I ended up playing around with iPhoto (when I first tried to use it) deleting and re-importing photos multiple times to try to learn how to organize them properly. Once I thought I had them organized properly, I deleted the folders containing the files off my PC thinking that I was fine and dandy. iPhoto then refused to open any pictures because it couldn't locate them.
I realized that under preferences ("advanced" pane) the program was not set to copy files into the iPhoto library when they were imported. Even so, I could find all the photos in the library, it's just now they are at reduced resolution. I assume I just retrived the thumbnails from iPhoto and that my photos are gone? Is there a way to retreive them?

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