Quick Look taking FOREVER after upgrading to Lion

Hey everyone. I have a mid-2008 24" iMac running with 4GB of memory. I recently upgraded to Lion and almost everything seems to be working great. One thing that is not working, however is Quick Look which is really not working at all. Back on Leopard or Snow Leopard, I would open up a folder full of jpgs, hit the Quick Look button and a preview of the picture would pop right up. I could then even arrow through the folder with each picture showing right up.
On Lion, this is not the case. I open a folder or picture files now, hit the Quick Look button and the picture comes up after about 30 seconds. Now, when I arrow around, the title for the Quick Look window changes but the new pictures never come up. Is anyone else having this problem? This is very frustrating and I am not sure why this feature the older OSs worked fine a but not now. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Hi,
I got the same issue with my 2007 imac with 4gb ram, in the dowload & document folder on the dock it doesn't load the icons anymore, useto work before untill today after i upgraded my ram, dunno if that could be the issue, could it be?
Thanks..

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Hi William
The disk is the internal Time Capsule Disk. It's a 1Tb model.
My iMac is localized in Italian
So I write here the Italian message and a possible translation
The first error message I get opening Airport Utility is:
Utility Airport ha trovato una Time Capsule 802.11n (2.a generazione) che segnala problemi
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(There was a problem with the Time Capsule disk. Connect a USB hard drive to your Time Capsule disk and use Disk Utility Airport panel to store data and run the backup.)
While if I go to the manual settings and I select the disk,
on the disk data info I have
Stato S.M.A.R.T.: Non funziona
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I don't know if to worry about the disk but I find suspicious that everything just started after Lion installation.
I called the call center and they just said to return the TC for disk repair (have to pay, warranty expired).
I told them about Lion installation fact and they said it looks like a coincidence but actually it is likely that after a disk initialization or a big amount of data writing the TC disk may break (WHAT ?!?) and the Apple guy even suggested me to buy an external disk that is less expensive and give less problem than a TC !!!!
(I can agree on that now, but I was surprised to hear that from them )
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After upgrading to lion I am experiencing a lot of problems with time caspule
1. backup fail: it starts and than fails (error message and yellow warning triangle)
2. unable to connect to TC disk, neither from airport utility, nor from Finder
3. Airport Utility hangs while trying to manually modify configuration (rainbow weel).
After a lot of reboot, reset, disk rename, time capsule reconfiguration etc etc AND TC DISK REINITIALIZATION (ALLA BACKUP LOST!)
now backup seems to work and I can browse files in Time Machine
BUT
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Hi William
The disk is the internal Time Capsule Disk. It's a 1Tb model.
My iMac is localized in Italian
So I write here the Italian message and a possible translation
The first error message I get opening Airport Utility is:
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(There was a problem with the Time Capsule disk. Connect a USB hard drive to your Time Capsule disk and use Disk Utility Airport panel to store data and run the backup.)
While if I go to the manual settings and I select the disk,
on the disk data info I have
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Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
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