Messed up thumbnail icons in FCP bin

Hi,
This problems has been dogging me for ages. Any ideas what make any footage I have ingested from the p2 camera in 1440x1080 as Prores 422 looks all screwed up. (Similar to what you see if you import an image that CMYK & not RGB) I dont have this problem with any other footage. It make it impossible to browse through the clips using the browser icon view. Have tried deleting the thumbnail cache & reset the prefs.. Clips play fine in the timeline & the source window though.
Using a new macbookpro 17 incn with lastest Lion but had the same deal on my previous laptop running Leopard. Bowser icons also show up fine on my Macpro desktop system!
Any suggestions appreciated. See pic attached.
Ta,
Steve.

Hi X,
Sorry for late response I have been away. Did a log & transfer of a clip using Native & the icon view is fine! Just seems to be the case with using Prores 422. This wont solve my issue though as I have lots of other footage from different sources that is mainly Prores 422, which means I have to render a P2 native clip every time I drop it in the timline, which would be a pain.
I will do some more searching on the web, someone else must have this happen.
Cheers,
Steve

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