No previews in import screen

Hi all,
I used other camera's than my trusty old Canon 30D for a while and I've upgraded to LR 2.6 in the meantime. Now, when I import RAW files from the 30D with the 'Import' button in the Library module, it only shows empty 'tiles' in the preview screen. With the correct files names but no thumbnails. When I actually import the files in the catalog, everything works OK.
This does not happen with RAW files from my Panny LX3. These files are shown as thumbnails in the Import screen.
Any ideas what's wrong? (or what I'm doing wrong). Very annoying!...
Cheers, Richard.

Hi Seán,
Tnx for your response. No it's a 30D from 2006. I have also changed the colorspace in the camera from Adobe RGB to sRGB to see if the '_MG' filenaming from the 30D with Adobe RGB had anything to do with it but it doesn't.
When I shoot JPG it works fine but somehow LR doesn't read previews from RAW (...CR2) files. Below a screenshot from the import screen. Two RAW files, one JPG. I have LR 2.6 (632038) CR 5.6.
OS is Win XP SP2 on a Thinkpad T61 laptop. Nothing exotic here imo...
Weird huh?...
Richard.

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