File no longer shows icon in icon view

Instead of showing the cover of a music track for example, I now get this generic icon:
Does anyone know why this has happened and what I can do about it?

It's not only you guys, evidently it's a brand new bug, and it is odd there is no alarm in the iTunes forum. There HAS been upset about it in the Finder forum though:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2464851&tstart=0
Fifteen hundred views on the topic and counting!
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> Hi there,
>
> I'm a pretty experienced dreamweaver user, using for 3
years, but this is
> baffling me. I've been using PHP includes for my content
for years, but all of
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>
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>
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