Why is image quality so deteriorated when pasting high-res photo as stamp?

Greetings.
I've had inconsistent luck with pasting images as stamps. Some come in heavily pixelated and some don't. My most recent image is 300 dpi and a little over 1MB. Looks beautiful in PhotoShop, but incredibly degraded when I paste as a stamp in Acrobat 9 Pro: Tools > Comment & Markup > Stamps > Paste Clipboard Image as Stamp Tool. Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Paula

Original poster, here. I should add that it's not just degraded, it has added, pixelated colors swirling around the image. Here are screen prints of before and after. Please help. If I can resolve this, I may have a new career for myself.

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