Grey Thumbnails of some offline photos

My configuration
Using LR 3.2
Windows 7 64bit
8 gigs ram
I have a catalog of over 200,000 photos spread over one local and 4 external disks.
Intended result
I need to be able to view all thumbnails for all offline photos
Problem
When I am scrolling through the thumbnails on the offline disks, randomly some of the thumbnails are grey. I can spend HOURS rendering previews while the disks online but when they are off line I have randomly grey thumbnails again.
Steps taken to try and fix the problem
imported ALL photos to a new catalog - issue happens with new catalog
Render standard preview of all photos - issue still happens
Render full preview of all photos on one external drive - when drive is offline issue still remains

Hi Savage,
I'm afraid I don't have a solution for you, but if you want, you can file an official bug report here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform.

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