Thumbnails in finder

Hi
Can anyone please tell me how I can get finder to show thumbnails of the images in my iPhoto library rather than just file names. As you will appreciate it takes ages to open them file by file until you find the one (usually the last) that you're looking for. They are stored as jpegs and all I get at the moment is a jpeg icon with a filename such as img_0054.jpg
Thanks
Ken
Powermac G5 2.3 Ghz, Macbook 1.83 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6) 2 x 250GB HDD; iPod 30gb video; Canon EOS 400D; Canon XM2 Videocam.

You need to set the view option of a Finder window to show an icon. This works in either Icon view or Column view: just go to the menu item View, select Show View Options and check the box for Show Icon Preview (in Icon view), and in Column view check both boxes. In list view the only way to have a custom thumb is to create them as part of the file, and they are so tiny anyway they probably would not help.
But if the images are in iPhoto, why not just browser them from within iPhoto?
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