Reading wmf files

Just switched computers and viewing WMF files is really spotty. I could read them before but half of them now just have a default icon. What's wrong with this picture. Yet another bug to add to the pile?

garyoa1,
I ran across your remarks while searching for a solution to Bridge 3's very erratic handling of some file formats:
"But the point is, if you've never used the freeware and shareware viewers, you've no idea how badly bridge functions. And one would think a $1500 suite of programs would do just a tad better than a free program. As far as bridge being better in CS4... haven't tried it yet, but there's no way they could make it worse."
That really sums it up. I use Bridge 3 extensively for my photographic image workflow--and literally never have a problem, and I do about 2500 RAW images a week for clients. It definitely is a much improved Bridge to PSCS4. With Premiere, it is another story altogether.
I also do professional videography and editing. Bridge 3 is an absolute writeoff with AVIs. 90% of the time it will not produce thumbnails for clips cut in Premiere, it frequently crashes trying to play back large clips, it frequently locks up when using it to copy multiple clips from one directory to another, it hangs on mpegs,it will not keyword some clips, and on and on. Useless, in a word.
All the cache purges, preference killing, and other workarounds simply do not work. Since I have no problems with very large image scans (2-400 megs) or photographic images, and no trouble with AVIs on other browsers or image management apps, I have to conclude that it is just lousy coding and QA at Adobe, something that is emerging as a sub text trademark over the last few years. Anyone who has been involved with the numerous problems with Lightroom over the last two years and the present issues with PSCS4 will immediately recognize the issue. Thankfully, LR 2.3 and ACR 5.3 are now finally,relatively, stable and reliable.
Ironically, I have had to turn to MS for a solution to my Bridge problems. Microsoft Expression 2 (formerly Iview), works flawlessly with video clips, has more useful professional features, handles more formats, and provides much faster workflow. It has solved all my Bridge video clip problems!
With Premiere, Bridge 3 is simply a Bridge to Nowhere. Users have a right to expect more of Adobe's very expensive applications. A creative suite without a Bridge that truly will act as a trouble free bridge that supports all the formats that the CS components will process is crippled.

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