No InDesign previews

Mac OSX 10.4.11
Bridge CS4
InDesign previews are not showing. I'm only icon previews. Any ideas?
Thanks.

No, it's well behaved now. I grouped and ungrouped with no problems. I dragged on to the page a copy of the type and EPS
I had put in a library before I got the file fixed, and it still exported properly. And I have edited the text by
changing its tracking. And again, it's behaving itself.
All I can put it down to is the amount of fiddling I had to do when setting the type on the path originally to get it
looking right. Somewhere along the line I guess I caused a corruption that the INX transition removed.
k

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