Tracing Options Preview box won't check in Ai CS3

This should be a simple one for all you experts. I'm new to Illustrator. I opened a downloaded world map as a JPEG and saved it as both JPEG and TIFF. I'm playing around with Illustrator CS3 and wanted to convert the map from raster to vector format using Live Trace. I clicked on Object>Live Trace>Options and to play around with the settings, previewing them to see what looked good. For some reason the preview box won't open to check. I've clicked on nearly everything in the tracing options box hoping to activate the preview, but nothing works.
What am I missing? It's not the machine, I'm sure it's my ignorance, but in case you're wondering, I'm using a 20" iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 500 GB HD, Mac OS 10.5.6, Ai CS3 v 13.0.2. I didn't open the map with Ps, but with Preview and saved it to TIFF from there. Preview doesn't work with with either the TIFF or JPEG docs. The downloaded file is US Web coated (SWOP) v2 JPEG and I have that and CMYK color settings in Ai for this document.

Hello Dave,
I tried to duplicate the problem without success. Try to save the image as Photoshop file, place the image and try again.
I hope this works

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