Image icons in Finder

When I copy a lot of images into a folder, the icons in Finder aren't always created correctly. Can anyone tell me why or how to update them once they have been created?
Here is a sample:

I tried several copies of hundreds of images both to a new folder on my desktop and to a new folder on the RAID. In all instances the icons were created correctly. I removed the com.apple.finder.plist and rebooted. The icons were then all recreated correctly. It looks like I'll have to reorder all the folders as the files are all jumbled up by name and such in the Finder window when viewing in icon mode, but I can deal with that.
I use Bibble to convert my RAW camera images into JPG images. Since Bibble makes use of multiple processors and threads to convert the images, I'm wondering if Finder is trying to create the thumbnails before each of the Bibble threads has completed. Next time I'll try running Bibble WITHOUT the finder window open, so that finder will have complete images to create thumbnails from when I open up the folder.
Anyway, thanks for the tip.

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