Illustrator preview icons

I know this subject has been up before, but I've just come across a variation of it I hadn't encountered before.
I have a document created in Illustrator CS3 on OS 10.4.11. If I place it in any folder on the Mac the preview icon is the orange Ai logo. If I drag it to the desktop the preview becomes the actual image of the document. If I drag it back into a folder it becomes orange Ai again....and backwards and forwards etc etc.
What causes that?

Thanks for that
Now it seems simple and obvious; there's always still alot of menu options I'd never noticed before

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