Bridge CS5 viewing InDesign Thumbnails on Facing Pages

When I recently upgraded to CS5 the view that I can see into InDesign files (from Bridge) changed. Specifically, if I want to look at a document with facing pages the Bridge thumbnail only shows the left-hand page. I need to see both sides of the document 'spread' which is something I could always do before. Does anyone else have this problem... and perhaps a solution? When I look at older InDesign files they show up with both pages (as I would like) but nothing created with the later version of InDesign shows up that way. Help!

Does anyone else have this problem...
You might be better of in the dedicated InDesign forum for this question.
Also check out this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/756859?tstart=90

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