LR 3.3 thumbnail woes

Hi all,
Starting yesterday LR stared showing the same (deleted, as it happens) image as the thumbnail for ALL new photos that I import. If I go to loupe view in library mode then the display still shows the erroneus image as well as a "loading" indication - this basically doesn't go anywhere. In develop mode, on the other hand, the "loading" indication is soon replaced by the correct image. I can use this laborious method to restore the correct thumbnails for all images - until I exit and restart Lightroom, at which point I go back to seeing a single (sometimes different) image displayed as the thumbnail for all photos.
Things are a bit more complicated in fact - some images switch to the correct thumbnail if I scroll them into grid view, others don't. Some of the latter will switch if a single-click them, others won't. Weird ...
Any ideas?
Leifur

Sounds like a corrupted preview file. Don't worry, that sounds worse than it is!
Close LR, go find your catalog and rename the Previews.lrdata file. (You can delete it later - I just want to be sure that all of your files are available, as if an original has been deleted, sometime the preview is the only version someone still has...)
Now open LR. Select all in Grid view and go to Library menu > Preview > Render Standard Previews and let it rebuild. It could take a while, so you might want to leave it running overnight. If you have any offline files, for example, on an external hard drive that's turned off, it won't be able to rebuild the preview for that photo until the drive is reconnected.

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