Questions re: Bridge CS3

I am new into using Bridge even though I have it for a while. I am trying to solve these problems:
1. How come some files do not have thumb nail previews, but when I play them in the monitor windows, they play fine. Just no thumb nail preview?
2. Is there a way to save the meta info of all my files once Bridge has defined them? i.e. I went over my entire HDD, find files, label them, rate them... then, is there a way to export the definitions in case my machine crash then I don't loose these hours of works?
Thanks.
Perry

1. I assume you are talking about thumbs for video files. I think it grabs the first frame of the video, which may be a blank screen. I have gotten around this by using snipping tool in Vista to make a jpeg shot to represent the video.
2. Type in Metadata in Bridge Help and see if that answers your questions. Don't mix up the concept of metadata with keywords and ratings.
3. It is always the best to back up you data to another hard drive or to CD's. A hard drive will fail at some point, usually when you have not backed up for a long time.

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