Help - Can't See any of my photos

Hoping that someone can help me - I am really at a loss here.
I am using Lightroom 1.3.1 on a Vista 64 system with 8G RAM. Things had been working fine, but suddenly I cannot see any of my picture, either in the Library module or in the Develop module.
In the Library module, I just see gray boxes for the thumbnails. When I originally open the Lightroom, there are no thumbnails, but when I mouse over them, the gray thumbnails appear. They also appear very disorganized - for example the gray thumbnail box for the "2" frame is upside down and the "2" label is reversed (mirror image). The filestrip view is similar.
If I go to the develop module, all I see is a gray box instead of the picture itself.
I've tried a few things - I deleted the preferences file and recreated it. I verified the integrity of the catalog. I tried creating a new catalog and I tried uninstalling and re-installing Lightroom. Nothing that I have done changes what I see.
Help - I am at a loss as to what to try next!
Thanks,
Paul

Well it actually uses the Profile which many another app wont bother to do, so if it is a corrupt profile it reacts differently that other apps.
Don
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