Bridge CS4 showing generic icon for TIF... sometimes

I recently installed CS4 and Bridge, all updated to the latest versions.
Here's the scenario:
Desktop running Windows XP Home with all updates and patches applied running CS4.
Laptop running Nikon Scan to acquire scans using Coolscan 5000.
Both PCs on a network.
I open CS4 on the desktop PC.
I open Bridge using the icon at the top of the CS4 Window.  I navigate to a folder where I keep newly scanned files -- these are TIFs.
On the laptop computer, I scan an image and it is saved to the laptop hard drive as a TIF.  Using Windows Explorer, I copy the TIF file from the laptop to the scan folder on the desktop that is open in Bridge.  Instead of seeing a thumbnail for the file in Bridge, I only see an icon that says "TIF."  I press F5 to refresh the view and nothing happens.  I double-click the TIF icon to open the file in CS4 and the image looks fine.  Still, only an icon in Bridge.
To replace the icon with the thumbnail, I can do one of three things:  close Bridge and reopen it, or purge the cache for the scan folder, or select the icon and right-click on the icon and "Purge Cache for the Selection."
Is this a bug?  Is there something else I can do so that when I add TIFs to the folder that is open in Bridge, I see the thumbnail and not the generic icon.
Thanks very much for any help here.
John
Message was edited by: John Blaustein

Curt,
Thank you for the reply.
If I click on another folder and then back to the scan folder, I still see the generic icon.  However, I did the test you suggested and copied some TIFs made by another program into the scan folder, and the thumbnails show up right away.  So, you are right that something about how the Nikon software saves TIFs is causing this problem.  The Nikon TIFs must have a thumbnail in them because I can view them after doing the other activities I mentioned.
I'm not a software expert, so I don't really understand how this stuff works, but at least you've helped me explain why it's happening.
Thanks again.
John

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