Problem with thumbnails in Bridge CS4

I was having a problem with Adobe Bridge crashing on me when I was looking at a large amount of images - like all my 2011 images. I'd read online that I needed to purge my cache and delete my preferences by holding down the ctrl key when starting Bridge and choosing all three options to "reset preferences", "purge entire thumbnail cache" and "reset standard workspace".
I did this, but it really did not solve my problem. I'm still working on that. It did create a problem that all my raw files show up without thumbnails, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to regenerate these thumbnails. I've tried downloading the camera raw plugin and installing that again and it does not help.
My raw files are from a Pentax K100d and are pef files.
I went back to some old photos, in my 2010 folder. When it first came up it showed the thumbnail for just a brief moment. It then went blank and then up popped that stupid little flower icon that I seen when there is no thumbnail.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you so much for your response.
I am running 64 bit Vista. I have CS4 and found that the latest version of Camera Raw that I could install was version 5.7. I found the install instructions on the Adobe site. As it told me to do, I downloaded the zip file for version 5.7 and extracted. I moved the Camera Raw.8bi file from the top directory into C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS4\File Formats and moved the Camera Raw.8bi file from the Win64 folder into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS4\File Formats.
Does this look right to you?
I can double-click on any of my raw "pef" files and I can edit them in Camera Raw, no problem. I can also look at the "about Camera Raw" and see that it shows version 5.7.
It just won't generate thumbnails.
This worked in the past. What happened to mess things up is a long story. I got a new camera, a Nikon D5100. What I did not realize was that this camera was too new for CS4 to be able to recognize. The updates that include this camera are only for CS5. At some point after I got this camera and came home with a ton of vacation pictures - saved as Raw + Jpg (so I had a ton of photos) bridge started crashing. I don't know if it was the size and or number of photos that I was trying to have visible in Bridge at one time or what. I started Goggling what could be the problem. I found one source say that I needed to reset the preferences and such and that I should start Bridge while holding the ctrl key and choose all three items to reset. I did this and my thumbnails that were there for all my old photos shot with my Pentax k100d went away. I just see a flower icon in their place. I've not been able to get them back. I have since moved all those big photo files to another folder and the crashing has stopped. Now I just have the problem that I caused.
What bothers me is that I saw a post here in this forum that says to never use the "purge cache" option from the edit > preferences box in Bridge. I can't find this post again. I have done this also before I saw that. I have also moved my cache to another location so that it had to create a new one. Still this does not work. I've restarted Bridge, rebooted, "purged the cache for the selection" and "generate high quality thumbnail". Nothing I've tried works.
Would reinstalling Bridge help? Do I have to install all of Photoshop? Do I have to uninstall first?

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