Not seeing thumbnails or preview images...

I recently upgraded with a new installation of CS5 on a new iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 of memory. On my older, smaller, and slower iMac (about a 1 1/2 year older machine - do not have the specs handy) I was using Bridge CS4 without any issues what so ever and am familiar with using it, so I know that this is not normal. Bridge shows it is creating previews, but it sits there and sits there, working and working and nothing draws. This is getting frustrating as I have grown accustomed to using Bridge and its many wonderful features (over an old version of iView).
Does anyone know of any issues such as this? Is there a solution?
I have tried to dump the cache and that gets me no where. It sits on that, I have to opt, cmd, esc and force quit it. At that point I also see that Bridge is not responding. Also, I have not changed any preferences since the original install. I am running it default.

Okay, very weird. But I just tried to dump the cache again before making the original post and I had to force quit Bridge. Opened it up again after making the post and thumbnails and previews are flying up on the screen now.
Go figure! So I guess for now, problem solved.

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