Tweak photo optimization settings?

I'm trying to put an NYC subway map on the phone (don't tell the MTA!), but when zoomed even a little, it looks awful and is illegible. Obviously there's some serious image compression going on in iTunes.
The original map was 963x1248 @ 160dpi. I tried resizing it to 1445x1872 with a bit of sharpening in Photoshop. Both look great on my monitor but terrible on the iPhone zoomed. Unzoomed, they're just too small to read.
Any ideas?
thx,
rkny

bump, because i have the same basic question.
if i look in the "package contents" of the iphoto library it contains a ton of freshly generated images in the "iPod Photo Cache". this "iPod Photo Cache" takes up 8GB!!!! that is double the size of my folder of ORIGINALS?!?!?!? how can i change that? i only have an 80GB HD and i dont need 10% of that devoted to ipod duplicates?!?!?

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using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
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