In Bridge CS4 only icons

In bridge SC4 I cannot see images in Raw or Dng. Bridge only shows icons. However I can open them and convert them to tif's and then they are visible in bridge
Something wrong in Bridge??

Thanks for your thoughts Jim,
After trying everything I gave up and moved to Lightroom which works fine and shows me the pictures
I would have preferred PS with Bridge but alas it won't
May be with a new iMac and CS5, Bridge will work again? Hopefully
greetings Daki

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