Bridge altering images automatically

When I click on a Canon file thumbnail in CS3 Bridge to look at it in Bridge, not RAW, Bridge alters the image leaving it lacking contrast and with desaturated color. The image looks nothing like the original thumbnail. When the image is then opened in RAW it looks exactly like the desaturated, uncontrasty image that Bridge turned it into. This does not happen to the Nikon files I look at in Bridge. If I open a Canon image in Photoshop, going straight to RAW, the image retains all the contrast and saturation of the original file. I have tried everything to stop Bridge from manhandling my Canon files but have had no luck. Any thoughts as to why Bridge ruins the Canon files and not Nikon's and what I can do about it?

Cannon and Nikon have different RAW formats, so Bridge will have to have correct conversion program to read them. Make sure you have latest update of Bridge. Don't have answer but remember seeing questions about Canon images. Try a search of this forum with Canon RAW or thumbs or other variations. Also check out search of knowledgebank.

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Thank you for your help. I updated the software and it "healed" itself.
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Gregory T. Stramat
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but have it installed in the user account application folder. Could you
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