Missing thumbnails in Elements 10 Organizer

Hello,
I am using Ements 10 Orgainzer and Editor. Suddenly, yesterday, every time I click on a picture in Organizer, it grays out and turns into a gray square with a broken gray photo shape inside it. The same file opens up fine in the Editor and the thumbnail still appears in my My Pictures folder. It opens fine in Picasa. Can anyone pleasee tell me why this is suddenly happening? The files are .tif and some havew been Edited and saved, including some with Adboe layers, but this should not effect the Organizer. Is there something that needs to be reoptimzed or done.
Hoping someone can tell me why this is happening and how I can fix it. It is making the Orgaiozer completely worthless for me.
TIA!
Message title was edited by: Brett N

Try highlighting a batch of the thumbnails and from the menu click:
Edit >> Update Thumbnail for Selected Items

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:55:46 -0800
From: [email protected]
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