Generic InDesign icon instead of thumbnail

Just upgraded from Panther to Tiger and all went well. But back in Panther, in column view, if I selected a saved InDesign document, a thumbnail of the document would appear in the next column. Since the upgrade, however, all I get is the generic InDesign icon. This happens with documents created before AND after the upgrade.
When I select a .pdf, .tif, .ai or .mpg in Tiger, I get a thumbnail, so it's just the InDesign documents that won't show. InDesign documents are set to "Save Document Preview Image."
I have repaired permissions, run Onyx and MacJanitor, etc. Is there a preference I should delete or something else? Thanks. These forums are invaluable, by the way.
PowerMac G4 Quicksilver Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2MB L3 cache 1GB SDRAM

I seriously doubt that will do a thing about this problem, and I wouldn't try it. As an experiment I tried copying an InDesign document and a couple of the other files that aren't showing thumbs from my tower, with Tiger, to my iBook with Panther. The iBook's only Adobe app is PS Elements. Nonetheless in column view it displays the thumb for the InDesign file and for a couple of ai files, none of which show a thumb in Tiger. I believe the problem is Tiger's, not ours.
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