Quick Look in Mountain Lion Broken?

Hi.
I'm running ML on my not terribly old iMac and Quick Look isn't working....when I hit the space bar to view *any* file, I get a window the correct size of the document I'm previewing but it is blank. Hitting space to close and again to open doesn't help (I've seen that as a persistant problem in some discussions)... if I hit space to open the blank window, then start to resize the window, whatever I'm meant to look at magically appears....with multipage files (like a PDF for example) once I get the image up, I'm unable to view any of the additional pages in the document...there are blank boxes for each page along the edge but they all have the sort of spinning fan in them as if they are trying to load.
I do not have this problem on my 13" MBP also running ML.
Anyone have any insights here?
Thank you very much in advance...
sparky

Yes I have the same problem. It doesn't happen all the time, and it doesn't seem to happen in every directory??? But the reason I'm here is I just did a Google search to see if anyone had any good solutions.
I don't recall ever seeing this problem in 10.6 (I pretty much skipped 10.7). The instructions at the CNET link do seem to repair it (I've tried them before), but it comes back after a few days or weeks. I sometimes have to hit the spacebar up to five times before Quick Look happens, until then a blank window comes up.
I agree that "this should be a fairly solid feature by now", not sure why some coder found a need to tweak working code and thereby (intermittently) break functionality.
FWIW I'm using a mid-2007 24" Al iMac, so this problem probably isn't related to a specific computer type. It's probably a Finder issue, not a video driver issue. My computer has ATI video, according to EveryMac the newest iMacs have NVidia.

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