Thumbnail previews don't work. CS5 / G5

What happened to the thumbnail previews?!! They don't work anymore and it really slows the workflow down...a lot!
Now you have to open up every file to see what it is.
Please Adobe, tell me there's a fix!

Bob,
What in the world are you smoking? Please read again.
The thumbnail previews are the little images that you see in 'finder' when you click on a file without opening it. They show you a miniature preview image (thumbnail) of the file.
Example: If you are in Indesign and you want to place an illustrator file into your layout, you would click on your frame and hit 'Apple D' and then locate the file you want from a relevant folder. I used to be able to use the thumbnail previews to help locate the file I needed. Now this function doesn't work and I have do trial by error. Which obviously takes much longer and slows the work flow down.
This happened after installing CS5. Not sure why or what's causing it exactly but it's a big deal.
Looking for a fix (not from smoking).
Mark

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