Preview application wipes  out photos after retouch. Help?

This has happened to me three times. I retouch a photo (.tiff from Grab It application). It looks good, I save, and the resulting thumbnail is a solid blank color - fully white twice, this time yellow. This does not happen every time. The blank photo does not appear on the working file, otherwise I could just back out. Only after I click "Save" so I have no idea I'm wiping out a photo. What's happening? Is that the idiosyncrasy of a tiff? Of course I cannot undo because the image has been saved.
Thanks.

Hi,
If you keep Preview Open (so you can Undo) and save the Pic using Save As and name it something else or file it somewhere else - and then open that newly saved pic, what do you get ?
When I use Grab it presents me with a file/window titled "Untitled"
Using Save As saves it as .tiff
I then open it in Preview and Annotated it this case. (uploaded with Skitch which transferred it to .png)
I must admit to using the keystrokes of Apple Key + 3 or 4
Apple + 3 is the Whole Screen
Apple + 4 gives you Cross hairs. Pressing the Space bar at this point gives you a camera icon and you can then get windows (slide out bits, Menu Drop downs) that you mouse over.
I used Tinker Tool to change the default file format to .png
The Icon and Cover View look fine
Can you explain what things you are doing in Preview ?
Someone may then be able to explain what is happening.
4:02 PM Thursday; August 26, 2010

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