Icons instead of thumbnails showing in Bridge

Hi,
Why is it that in some of my directories icons for InDesign files show instead of the thumbnails of the job itself? If I open the files in InDesign and then re-save them, the thumbnails show up. And, in one directory in particular, I've got a lot of IDML files, because, I had to save ID files as that for a colleague who's got an earlier version of ID. Most all of them show up as icons, not thumbnails.
Thanks,
Peter

In FileType Associations in Preferences, it lists InDesign with a series of extensions, followed by an ellipsis to indicate some others. But, I don't see IDML in there. You can't seem to be able to add to it. And, this problems shows up with some InDesign files as well, not just IDML files.
Thanks,
Peter

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