Still images importanted are much smaller Why?

Because of the snow storms that have hit the Mid-Atlantic region, I wanted to save some photo images off the Internet and made a 'movie' of them. I saved a couple dozen to a folder on my hard drive, then imported them into Premiere CS3 just as I do with video clips. However, after dragging and dropping them into the Video One track, when I played them I discovered that many of the clips were not full screen in the monitor... they were much smaller with black areas surrounding them. Is this an image size issue and if so, how can I make adjustments? I've attached an example of what I see in my monitor... I appreciate the help.

Yeah, I'd probably have black surround the actual image with a 2" image in a 12" frame. I checked the file size (in KB, using Properties) and found that the images which were too small (and surrounded by a black box) were in the area of less than 60 KB while the ones which were above, say, 120KB seemed too big... Cuz they appeared to be zoomed in on. One image which seemed just right had a size of 90.6KB.
I'll need to go back in to each file and see in the properties report will state the pixel size... Then I'll get back to you.

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