Bridge Preview Problem: This is Pretty Serious

Showing a client his/her photo session pictures in Bridge can be disastrous when Bridge decides to show images that can kill the deal. Beware, it can't be trusted. Period.
What's your worst nightmare with Bridge?
-AlexPS

We are forced to choose between soft previews and spurious previews. :/
UNcheck High-quality previews, relaunch Bridge and then Purge the Cache for each folder, one by one.
The false previews will be gone, but the previews will be just a tad soft.
Bridge engineers are fully aware of this. No fix has been promised.

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