Sometimes I can open files in Camera Raw; sometimes not.

While browsing in Bridge CS3, using a Wacom tablet, I can right click on image files (jpg, tif, etc.) and, with the drop-down, select "Open in Camera Raw...." Sometimes. Sometimes the option is not available for use on a jpg, tif, etc. file. No ryhme or reason that I can figure out.
Can someone tell me this?
Thanks, in advance!

If you made your Tiffs or JPEGs by scanning a single image on a Nikon Coolscan, you may need to Duplicate all of them in Bridge (and trash the originals).
NikonScan seems to embed some extraneous code into its single scans which prevents Bridge from showing thumbnails and upsets ACR.
Batch-scanned images seem to be unaffected by that bug.

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