Bridge Preview Failures

Every once in a while I get a garbled preview image in bridge like in this image below:
I can't find any consistant reason for this behavior. It was present in CS4 and now appears in CS5. A cache purge will correct the problem, but leaves me with lingering fear that the files may be corrupted. It would be helpful to know what is causing the issue. It would be even more helpful for this problem to be corrected.

Omke Oudeman wrote:
Could you specify if it only happens in processed files (assuming the black
and white portraits are processed in PS and not with in camera settings
directly from dSLR?)
It might be related to the video card if you had both version set with Open
GL active. You could try it a while with disabling OpenGL in the PS
preferences.
And it might also be related to saving and switching to something else while
saving is still in progress.
But as Tai Lao already stated, this randomly failure is hard to track down
BTW, nice portraits!
It does only seem to happen with files processed through PS and saved to JPEG. The error may only be appearing when saving out these JPEGs from ACR in larger batches, but I can't say this with total certainty. If true, however, this would follow your theory about switching to another program while saving as I almost certainly switch to mail,  Firefox or, most frequently, into Bridge to look for my next set of RAW files to process.
I am wrong about the video card not being a possible suspect, though, as I said, it seems unusual that two different cards on two different computers would yield the same error. The example posted above is from a new 2.8 GHz quadcore with the stock ATI Radeon HD 5770 video card. My previous computer was a G5 2.3 GHz dual processor with the Nvidia Geforce 5200.

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