Finder thumbnail view like Windows XP?

Windows XP has a nice way of looking at thumbnails that are large of all the pictures in a folder which I'd like to do in Mac OS X without using iPhoto or GraphicConverter, and without having to leave the Finder. Has anyone made a hack that enables that in either 10.4.11 or 10.5?

Yes, but I'd like to see that on the Finder. It is difficult to instruct someone who is new at Macs how to go through all those extra steps to get the same feature, and it would be good for them to have that feature right on the Finder since they are beginning to get into digital photography.

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