No preview image available

When I place various formats in an illustrator CS3 document, for most file types, no preview is avaialable, The same images and files preview in InDesign. As a work around we are using In design to visually search a collection of images through the place command placing them in InDesign, and then cutting and pasting to Illustrator. Is there a way to have previews show up in Illustrator placements?

File>Place
How are you placing the images?
If you are dragging and dropping jpegs from the web the drag them first o the desktop from the browser then drag them to the Illustrator document.
If you are using Fie>Place then there is something wrong with the settings folder in your user's preferences, trash it and relaunch illustrator.

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Thank for so interesting and undocumented feature. Where you get it?
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