1024 and 256 folder question

I used WinDirStat to find out what was eating up my harddrive space. It showed me that I had 64.2 gig in my bridge cache. Specifically the 1024 and 256 folders. I tried to purge the cache from bridge preferences and it keeps freezing up. This might be because there is 1710 folders in just the 1024 folder. I also tried to compact the cache figuring it would delete some of the thumbnails because they are no longer available but nothing really happened.
What is the right thing to do here? I would like to delete all the folders directly from the 256 and 1024 folders instead of trying to do it in Bridge preferrences. Then just start rebuilding thumbnails as needed. Is this a wise thing to do or will there be repercussions?
How should bridge prefferences be set to avoid this in the future? I have it set on Automatically export cache to folders when possible and cache size is now 10,000 it was higher maybe at 50,000.

Thanks Curt. I have done that for individual folders before. But bridge only allows me to delete the cache for the folder thats currently open. I couldn't get bridge to navigate to the 256 and 1024 folders and even if I could sorting through 1700 folders and deleting their caches would be brutal.
I read what you suggested and saw this and it scared me off:
Disclaimer: The Windows registry contains information critical to your computer and applications. Adobe does not provide support for problems that arise from improper modification of the registry. Adobe recommends you have experience editing system files before you modify the registry. Make sure to back up the registry before modifying it. For more information on the Windows Registry Editor, refer to your Windows User Guide or contact Microsoft Technical Support.
I don't know anything about registries. So whats my options here? 60 gig is alot of used up space. I see thumbnails from years ago. None of these folders are still on my harddrive they are cataloged on external harddrives.
So if I deleted the folders right out of the 1024 folder I am actually messing with the registry?
I have already deleted one folder of thumbnails out of 1024 folder. Then reopened the folder of images in Bridge and a new folder of thumbnails appeared in the 1024 folder. I also deleted the contents of the" full" folder since there wasn't that much in it. I figured those were from the few times I accidently "Generated 100% preveiws." I did this before I knew I might not want to! 
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