Low res previews

After importing several directories of photos I notices some of my previews appear to be severely pixellated. These photos were only raw files, all my jpegs were fine. I finally found that the raw files with problems were in directories that also contained jpegs AND xmp files.
Directories with both raw and jpeg but no xmp files display ok.
Then I noticed in the metadata the file dimension was 160x120.
It looks like I am trying to view a thumbnail at full screen res.
Is there some special handling required for files with associated xmp files?
Mac Pro 3gb OS X

Bob, it seems like LR uses those jpg side car files as previews (one of the developers mentioned something like this). So, if those jpeg files only have 160x120 pixels you should try deleting them and see what happens in LR. (Make a backup first of course.)
Alexander.
Canon EOS 400D (aka. XTi) • 20" iMac Intel • 12" PowerBook G4 • OS X 10.4 • LR 1 • PSE 4

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