Cover Flow won't display JPEGs

Am new mac user - running Leopard and have Adobe CS3 on the machine. Primary reason for moving to mac was to get improved control over my photos and videos. After loading about 10K photos onto the machine (am managing with Adobe Bridge, not iPhoto), I realized that Cover Flow in Finder will not display the JPEG files. It simply puts up an icon with a JPEG label on it. Have looked online for a solution but no clear guidance - does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks.

PS--too late to edit, but one thing to try, to make sure Coverflow isn't having some sort of major problem, is go to to a web site that has jpegs. Make yourself a folder on the Desktop, call it WebJPEGs, then click on a jpeg in the browser window, continue to hold the mouse button down, pause for just a second, and then, still holding the mouse button down, drag the jpeg out of the browser window and drop it (release the mouse button) when you are over the folder you created. Add several jpegs to the folder this way, then open the folder and put it in Coverflow. Does Coverflow draw the custom icons?
Just in case you can't think of a web site you know has jpegs, you can use this page:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/smug/tutorials/compositing.html
All the pix are in jpeg format, and were created in Photoshop Elements on the Mac.
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