Preview's Funny Ideas of Image Display

I have a strange issue with Preview that I cannot find a setting or preference to define. I have migrated a large number of graphics from my old-and-busted Windows machine to my new-hotness MacBook Pro. Some of these are forum icons which are generally 100 pixels by 100 pixels, but in varying resolutions.
When I open a 100x100 icon that has 72 dpi, Preview displays it larger than its dimensions, causing it to look all pixelated and fuzzy. When I open the same icon that has 600 dpi, Preview shows it as a tiny little square. I can adjust the view with command-plus or command-minus, but this is imprecise and not the sort of behavior I expect (also, the zoomed images continue to look pixelated). I've tried telling Preview to show stuff in Actual Size (command-zero), but this seems to have no effect at all.
I would include a screen shot, but I don't know how: there doesn't seem to be an option to include one in the posting dialog. Is this some kind of weirdness introduced by the fact that these images were created on a Windows machine, or am I seeing communists where there are really only well-meaning education Ph.Ds?
(Incidentally, Growl displays a similar propensity: some people's icons from Twitter are sized normally while others are tiny even though their icons appear normal in Twitterific and in a Web browser.)

Glad to be of help.
Corruption of plist files seems to vary from user to user. I have not experienced a lot of problems with plist files but I have had a few occasions where moving the relevant plist to the desktop and then re-starting the application has resulted in fixing it. In your case if the problem occurs again with Preview then use the same procedure to solve it though the chances are that you may not experience any further problems.
Being a configuration file it gets read and updated each time the associated application is run so there is always activity which I suppose has the potential to result in an error.
Chris

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