CS3 Bridge Cache Best Practices

I am using CS3 Bridge Version 2.1.1.9 and have a question(s) about the cache.
(System specs: Vista 64bit SP1, CPU: Quad9550, Ram: 4GB, Video: 9800GT)
When and why should I purge the cache?
Whenever I re-enter Bridge and go back to a recent folder of images, the spinning "pizza wheel" reappears for a few seconds and seems to refresh the thumbnails. Why could it not do this once and keep the refreshed thumbnails?
By the way, I just recently switched the Preference from High Quality to Quick Thumbnails and that change gave me a huge boost in speed. The High Quality thumbnails were incredibly SLOW which once again begs the question just above, why does it not do it once?
Thanks
Jim Calvert

As I mentioned in post #4 my thumbnails stay for several weeks (I use quick thumbs).
I have a dedicated scratch partition of 40 gigs (shared with photoshop). My Bridge catch was 14 gigs this morning, and I elected to compact thumbnails and that process reduced cache down to 9 gigs. Compacting eliminates cached items that no longer are linked to anything. Folders that had not been visited for at least a week still had the thumbnails there, so no rebuilding. I use only central cache (do not export to folders).
The point of this is how big is your cache? Does it have to be overwritten to make space for other activity? The only other thing I can think of is that if you are using a lot of raw files it has a seperate cache. I really do not understand this, or what purpose it serves. But under edit/Camera Raw Preferences there is a box to set location and size of camera raw cache. Default is 1 gig, and it has been recommended by some that this should be increased to 4 to 10 gigs, depending on you use of ACR and file sizes.
My thumbs load instantly (unless they have to be rebuilt). I have between 400-800 pictures in a folder.
I am using CS3.

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