Picture thumbs in finder wrong

I upgraded to Lion when it first came out - I have been using it for months now, and all of a sudden many of the thumbs of the photos in finder are of a different photo - when I click on the photo the correct photo is accessed, but the thumbs are of something completely different. This makes it very difficult to find something without knowing the exact filename (I have tens of thousands of photos for work so this is not practical)
HELP>>>>
Thank you in advance.
I have a MacBook Pro using intel chip

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I am having a hard time keeping track of where my pictures are being stored.
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