Missing thumbnails in Bridge CS4

Can anyone explain why some of my .PSD thumbnails have gone missing from Bridge CS4? The files show as simply the PSD icon. These are large files (~200MB). If I highlight the files in a folder, right-click, and 'Purge cache for selection', the thumbnails immediately appear but then disappear one by one as the little wheel in bottom left corner of Bridge revolves and the number of full file extractions counts down. I've completely purged the cache via Bridge and in the cache folder by hand. In Bridge Preferences I've set the maximum file size at 3000MB. The odd thing is that thumbnails of similar size files disappear in some folders but not others. Some .TIF files have also disappeared. Smaller files (less than 100MB) seem ok. Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks.

Is there any chance that your cache file is too small to hold all the thumbnail data? If so it could be erasing the large ones to make room for others.
Have to compacted the cache to get rid of orpan files?
Are you using quick or HQ thumbnails? If memory and speed are considerations try quick thumbs.

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