Safari vs. Internet Explorer: Icon previews

Hi there,
My friend just switched from Internet Explorer to Safari, and although he loves Safari, there is one major feature that he misses (and now, I realize that I miss this feature as well!):
Whenever he drags-and-drops an image from a website onto his desktop, Internet Explorer creates a beautiful preview icon of the image... it's perfect, and easy to recognize what the file is! But, when you drag an image onto the desktop from Safari, it creates a generic Preview icon.
Is there any way to fix this behavior in Safari?
Thanks!
Scott

I'm having the same problem with images dragged and dropped from Safari. It doesn't happen with Internet Explorer so it makes me assume the problem is with Safari and not Preview. With Preview in Tiger (v. 3.0.1), the preferences are set up differently than in Panther. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I do a lot of image research online and can't use Safari because of this bug.
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