Previewing imported bitmaps for Illustrator CS4 using Windows XP

Hi all
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to preview a bitmap while importing it into Illustrator CS4 (File>Place). I am using Windows XP SP3 and I know you can see a preview on bitmaps with the Mac version.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
George

Some general comments (when I used CS3 and WinXp I did not have any problems, now I am on Win7 64bit Pro and CS5) 
Check your WinXp configuration and eliminate (not remove, just stop from running at startup) anything you don't really need
Background programs can cause problems for video editing
The usual advice is to disable anti-virus (and, of course, don't connect to the Internet) to reduce the drain on resources
Also do not have other programs YOU start running, so PPro has 100% of the computer's attention & resources
Be sure you have a good device driver for your nVidia card
This is usually the latest one (direct from nVidia, not Windows update) but you MAY need to experiment with driver versions in case a later version does not work well
>HDV project where the bulk of the files are HDV from a Canon HV20
CS5 is much better at allowing different kinds of files in a project, I'm not so sure about earlier versions
If your final output is going to be DVD what MAY help is to do only the HDV part, save out to DV AVI Widescreen, then do the other codecs in a separate project, and finally join the DV AVI files in a final project
CS4 is 32bit so will not take FULL advantage of Win7 and a 64bit computer... but if you have enough memory (I would say 12 or 16 Gig, depending on motherboard) that will allow CS4 to use as much ram as possible
Just how do you have your drives configured?
My 3 hard drives are configured as... (WD = Western Digital)
1 - 320G WD Win7 64bit Pro and all program installs
2 - 320G WD Win7 swap file and video project files
3 - 1T WD all video files... input & output files
Search Microsoft to find out how to redirect your Windows swap file
http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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