CS4- No thumbnail preview, hard to look my file.

I wonder why there's no thumbnail preview in CS4?
I'm using Vista and when I switch to view as thumbnails, the psd file seems showing [ps] icons.
These gives problem when I want to search any older psd files I did last month or beyond. I must open all those files one by one just for looking a file. It wastin my time...
When saving the file; there's a 'thumbnail' check box, but what it means?
Is there any solution so I will have the thumbnails preview for psd files? I like the item pictures appear automatically without any procedure when saving any psd.

Try this:
http://www.ardfry.com/psd-codec/
worked in CS4 and is working fine in CS5.

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