Sorry a.l.e., our version of Scribus is 1.4.6. and GhostScript 9.07 32-bit.
Yes, I was sitting next to her - laptop next to laptop. What is weird is the PDF files that will not display in Scribus will open up on her laptop in Adobe Acrobat Reader just fine. Other PDFs, from the same directory location, will open in both Scribus and Acrobat on her laptop.
Next, I will try to Get Image from a USB drive and see how that works. Also, I read in another post that someone ran their PDFs through a program called GIMP and the display issue was resolved. I will try that after the USB test.