Transparency copied from photoshop turning black

I have found some images I'm trying to get them into illustrator, however when i drag them from photoshop, or place them into illustrator directly, the transparency turns to black... it shows up find in photoshop, but when i drop it into illustrator it goes to black.. can't figure out how to get this to work. I've been noticing this with a number of images... the one that started it is this: http://opengameart.org/sites/default/files/iso-64x64-outside.png

CHMprepress wrote:
thats becourse your image is a png and is in index color, just make your image RGB or CMYK (depending on the end result you want), save it as native photoshop and than link it in Illustrator
I agree with all of that except, “or CMYK.” Just convert to RGB. If the end result is for printing, let Illustrator handle the RGB > CMYK conversion.

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