Can I turn off certain classes of icons in the finder.

In general I like the 10.5 idea of making the icons for files be a preview of their contents, but there are some, like pdf or doc (sorry) files where I can actually visually process them much easier if they retained their old style generic icon.
Is there any default I could set with the Finder that would enable me to keep all files of a given file type generic?

Bill:
I agree with your comment; it's Excel spreadsheets that are the problem for me -- I have a bunch of text files from a database in a directory with the converted Excel versions. It would be easier for me if the Excel files still had their old icons so I could tell them from the text files.
However, I think you might have better luck if this was in another forum; the UNIX forum doesn't seem like the right place for it. (I stumbled onto this message while looking for some advice on using Terminal.)

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