Old and generic icon or thumbnail removal

Dear all,
Over the years I used different ways or softwares to generate thumbnails in my images library. Before OSX 10.6, that was the way to go because the finder is not really good to practically showing them.
But now with OSX 10.6 the icons are generate fast and if you want at a resolution of 512 x 512 great to explore image folder.
The problem is for the images that have thumbnails created in the past by different ways, normally they was generated at 128 x 128 and they look ugly, a solution is to command+i on the image and delete the icon, work great, but you need to do it one by one for each image.
I have more than 10,000 images and the 3/4 of them have a generic icon, I try to remove the icons in batch, but every thing I tried fail, I tried software for removing the resource fork, some softwares for generating icon said the can remove icon also but this is not working nether.
I'm stuck, did someone have a solution?
Thanks

first, you can use CoCoThumbX. it can batch remove custom thumbnails. also, you can do it in batches by hand as follows. select a bunch of files in finder and enter commandoptioni. this will open just one info window for all of them. select the icon in the upper left corner and hit delete.

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