Suddenly No Images in Bridge

I am running CS3 with Bridge. When I open Bridge no images show in the preview area. It shows how many images we have in the file, but the image area is totally blank. It was working fine until today. Help!
Update: Now Bridge won't open at all...It says a problem caused the program to stop working. Awindows will close problem and notify you if a solution is found.
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium, HP computer mt8120N, Nvidia graphics card, 3 gb RAM. As I stated above...Bridge ran fine, glitch free, until today.

Hi Marge and others,
I'm new to this forum and desperately trying to find a solution to my problem with Bridge. I'm having the same problem Marge had and wondering whether a solution was found.
I'm using CS3, Bridge 2.1.1.9, Windows XP, Nvidia graphics card. Everything working fine until today BUT...
Now image thumbnails are not displaying in the 'content' panel or 'preview' panel. It's just completely blank. But the images ARE there - the bottom bar tells me how many files are in the folder, the size of the scroll bar in the content panel also roughly indicates how many files are in each of my many folders, and (like Marge) I can sometimes right-click on a completely blank area of the content panel and open an image in Photoshop and it opens fine. I say 'sometimes' because sometimes when I do that, I also just get the familiar 'Send error report' message.
On top of all that, there are a handful of folders for which the thumbnails are displaying perfectly (both raw and jpeg image folders). Aaaaarrrgh. So frustrating!
I've tried rebooting and I've set preferences to 'Use Software Rendering'.
Any suggestions to help solve this problem would be greatly appreciated!

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