Stop Bridge CS3 Auto Processing my files....

Apologies if this question goes over some old ground....I've had a good look around regarding the problems people are facing with Bridge's auto processing feature, but I haven't yet found an outright answer. So I will pose the question in my own way, and I believe it's a very simple one....
When reviewing a folder of RAW files, how do I stop Bridge from applying auto corrections and just show me each image as it came out of the camera?
Apart from the fact that Bridge's interpretation of the "correct" exposure and colour balance etc is often just plain wrong or at least not what I want, here's my real issue.
I use Bridge to do my initial editing of my images. So I will have a folder of around 1000 RAW files which I scroll through using the arrow keys in "filmstrip" view, applying a label to images I want to keep. This should be a fairly quick process...I'll know within a fraction of a second of seeing an image whether I want to keep it or not....but for each image I currently have to wait for a second or two while Bridge applies it's adjustments and renders the preview image in the top half of the screen, going from a pixelated/blurry image to a sharp "corrected" one. I would prefer to instantly see just a larger uncorrected version of the thumbnail so I can make my evaluation and move on. Working with the number of images I do, even that pause of a second or so adds up to a lot of time added to the job as a whole.
It's infuriating and you would think it would be a simple issue to deal with, but I've yet to find a conclusive answer to it.
I would be incredibly grateful to anyone who can help me put this issue to bed.
Many thanks
Paul Williams

curt,
I understand RAW quite well. I think perhaps I haven't been clear enough about my objection to the default method Bridge employs in displaying RAW images and in opening them in Camera.
Before trying Don's tip, I never got to see anything like the image I actually had shot. Bridge would boost the brightness and/or exposure very drastically. Now that I'm seeing the embedded thumbnails for the first time, I'm amazed at the delicate, nuanced gradients of tone in my sunset shots -- all of which I wasn't getting to see until now.
The thumbnails might be jpgs, but they represent the corresponding RAW images and do so far more faithfully, IMO, than Bridge has done for me up to now. Remember, even in RAW, the operator has to set in-camera many of the same values as must be set for jpgs: contrast, saturation, sharpening, and of course shutter diameter and speed. RAW might have far more latitude in altering these values in post-processing but they still must be set initially so that the computer will have initial values to start with.
Now that I can see the embedded previews prior to Bridge mucking them up, I can see that I shouldn't have to spend as much time in PhotoShop as I do. Apparently a good bit of my editing time, I see now, has been used by trying to undo the harm that Bridge does when it changes the levels of my pix without having been asked.
Your suggestion about finding a good set of levels and applying them across the board seems to me to be equivalent to suggesting that I find an f-stop and shutter speed I really like and using those values for every shot I take. Variations in each scene require more individuated treatment than that. Even within a single shoot, I usually cannot synchronize my Camera RAW settings across more than a half-dozen or so photos before needing to adjust for changing light levels from shot to shot.
But it's clear to me that the initial values i've been shooting with are far closer to what my eyes have seen, and make a better starting point in PS than the product that was being produced by Bridge when it was making unwelcome changes to my photos. I feel like I've been trying to edit for the past couple years with a blindfold on and have just had the blindfold removed for the first time!
Regards,
Jim

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