Desktop icons appear as generic PS icons

I recently installed PSE 6.0 for Mac. Am running it on two machines, one using 10.4.11, the other running Leopard. This problem occurs on both machines. When I create a new image and save the file as a jpg, the file icon appears on the desktop as a generic PS jpg icon, rather than a mini of the image. I cannot find any option or preference that allows me to have file icons replicate the image. I did not have this problem in previous versions of PSE (2, 3).

You need to ask in the Elements forum as you have taken a wrong turn and ended up in the Photoshop forum.

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