Bridge colours different to ACR colours

Hi
I have read a few similar posts to this but they were not exactly the same issue I could find. If I am wrong I am sorry.
For me, bridge is showing thumbs & previews (and slideshows) that are right (ie. contrast, saturation is good etc), however, when you open an image in the Raw dialogue it is flat and lacking contrast / saturation as a whole.
I am pretty sure that if i boost saturation etc in raw dialogue then it shows in bride as over done. ANy ideas on this to check
Thanx in advance
Chris

>the spurious previews
Just to double check this with ACR 4.3.1, I changed the Bridge 2.1.1.9 prefs setting to HQ previews, quit and relaunched Bridge and used the Tools menu to purge the cache for a single folder containing only 18 images. As soon as the cache rebuilt,
WHAM! I had three spurious thumbnails and previews in the folder. >:(
Changed the Bridge 2.1.1.9 prefs setting to
UNcheck HQ previews, quit and relaunched Bridge and used the Tools menu to purge the cache for that one folder and everything is back to normal, including the old soft but true previews. :/
OS 10.4.11, Photoshop 10.0.1, ACR 4.3.1, Bridge 2.1.1.9.
Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM, both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled, Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive, at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2.

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