Problems viewing the edited raw file in bridge

Up until recently my Adobe Bridge has been working beautifully. I opened up a job to edit in Adobe Bridge that are all shot in RAW with my 5D Mark II camera. I am working on a MacBook Pro (10.4.11). When I bring a photo into Camera Raw (by pressing apple R) I can change the photo but once I hit "Done" the change does not show in the preview or the thumbnail. (I am working in filmstrip mode). I have no idea why this is happening and I did empty my cache already. Anybody have any suggestions?
Please note that in bridge, next to the thumbnail, the icon showing that there has been a change is there and I do see the change once I open the photo in Photoshop. I personally use Camera Raw in Bridge to edit my work and this is causing a major problem Please advise.

many problems like these depend on cache, as I read in DAM forum. Not just the Bridge cache, but also Camera Raw cache (preview is cached by camera raw, not bridge). Ultra safe method to empty the Bridge cache is doing Manualy, central cache and inside each folder you have the problem; but you need an utility to see invisibles files inside the folders (TinkerTool or MainMenu).
To empty the cache of camera raw follow the path: user/library/caches/adobe camera raw
To empty the cache of Bridge follow the path: user/library/caches/adobe/bridgecs4

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