Black thumbnails and pictures in Media Center in PE8

Hi,
I've had this issue for years (in PE6, 7 and now 8) and on various Windows versions (XP MCE, Vista and now on W7 x86 and x64) but I've finally decided to try and do something about it as I'd really like to be able to use the MC plugin.
As the title says, some of my pictures appear black (both the thumbnail and the picture itself) in Media Center. All my pictures are fine in the desktop version of PE8. It seems to happen exclusively with pictures that are taken vertically (portrait orientation), those in landscape are fine. But some portrait pictures (though very few) appear fine too. I've also found out that if I open a "black" picture in the Editor and save it (without changing anything), then it will appear fine in MC. And I've noticed that it's only happening with my camera (Canon Ixus 860 IS) although I had the same problem with my 2 previous cameras (both Canon PowerShots). The memory cards were different too.
I'm pretty baffled by all this and I really don't know what I could do to sort this out. If anybody has had the same problem or if anyone can think of a solution, any helps would be greatly appreciated!
Here's a picture to illustrate what I'm talking about:

My suspicion is that your problem correlates to a photo orientation indicator set by your camera in the photo file.
some ideas
--Choose one photo which displays black in Media Center
-- In the PSE Organizer thumbnail area, select that photo and display the Organizer Properties panel/window for that photo. within the Camera Data of that Properties window you are looking for an Orientation field - what does it say ?
-- Now in the Organizer, rotate the thumbnail of that same photo 90 degrees to the right or to the left and then rotate it back in the other direction
-- Do whatever you may need to do to refresh your display through Media Center and check if this photo displays OK.
After you post back with your results, we can discuss in more detail the what and the why. If my theory is correct the solution should be easy.
FYI - I suspect that your identifying that the problem was specific to portrait photos which had not been edited will be very significant in identifying what is happening. Good analysis.

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