Cover Flow Blurry

Some problems with cover flow. Most of my images (jpegs, etc.) are blurry in cover flow. They look wonderful in quick view, but return to pixelated, blurry appearance in cover. These are high resolution (8 or 10 MP) images. I also do not get any thumbnail in coverflow for my purchased tv shows and videos from iTunes. Video podcasts are fine, avi movies are fine, but purchased mp4 files show as a generic icon.

while deleting a thumbnail/icon (by hand or with cocothumbx) might be a quick solution for photos, i expect coverflow to handle this correctly for me. when dealing with thousands of photographs, automatic export from aperture, batch processing in photoshop/bridge etc, i shouldn't have to deal with thumbnails, should i?
coverflow simply isn't where it should be. i also find it strange that quicklook and coverflow seam to use different algorithms to render files. try an adobe illustrator file for example. the finder doesn't show the content as icon (in a folder), coverflow renders the content/artboard correctly, quicklook only displays the oversized icon. what the...?

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it should be sharp & clear, not blurry
Quit jiggling the camera when you take the picture?
(Yes, I know it was a screen shot and not a camera.)
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