No Thumbnail for MOV Files

Hello there
was looking through the forum here, no result...at least I found no solutions to my problem...
I just tried Bridge today as a new way to get all my video Clip Files into a thumbnail view and make my live easier.. but... every Movie file shows just the generic .mov File thumbnail. I am using Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Adobe Bridge CC .. Quicktime 10 and the older Quicktime Player Version 7.6.6 is installed
How can i get Bridge to show the thumbnails?? This would be a total show stopper..

ok, i was purging the cache in the Preferences Folder. it rebuilt, but it looks the same as before.
Now, if i wa susing strange Codecs i could understand.. but.. those are Animation, Photo-JPEG , H264 and all different kind of files. But not any of them show up. I was also checking the Files size limit, and set it to 20GB - 20000MB.
I also uninstalled Perian - thought maybe thats trobeling somwhow.. but.. no chance... very strange.I would think thats one of the basic functionality of Bridge...

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