Appearance of black in Bridge cs4

I set the appearance of black in illustrator to "display all blacks as rich black" and "output all blacks as rich black". when displaying the previews of these files in bridge they only display backs "accurately" or in "100k black". This also happens in Preview 4.1 and Adobe Acrobat reader.

when I open Bridge the folder name, 2009, is in tiny 3 or 4 point type, underneath which, in much larger type, is a date on which the folder was created,
The folder name is dynamic in size while the additional info lines seem to be fixed in size. I never noticed this before but your post make me trying because the first look at your screenshot showed you have tiny thumbnails set. Try yourself using the slider bottom right in the Bridge window to increase the thumbnails and you will see that the filename enlarges in points together with the size of the thumbnails.
This is simply confusing, is there any way to prevent this date being shown under the folder name?
Nothing confusing just a great way to add extra info. In Bridge Preferences is a section called 'thumbnails'. Inhere you see the option for 'Details'
You can add up to 4 lines of additional info for thumbnails choosing subjects to show from the pop up menu. If you don't want it to show at all deselect all the options

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Schlotkins wrote:
One area that is particularly slow is Bridge when importing files.
My question is does Bridge support multiprocessors like the Core i7? It appears it doesn't based on my results but perhaps there is something wrong with my setup.
Thanks for any help,
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