Using "Preview" for digital photos

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this question, but here goes: When I use Preview for viewing digital photos, it works fine for images taken with my Sony Cyber-Shot point-and-shoot, but on photos from my son's Olympus DSLR, I get this Error message: "Preview is unable to properly display this image. The file may be corrupt. Reason: Can't cache image". When I click on OK, the photo does load just fine. The Olympus is setup to take "Fine JPEG" images, not RAW. The photos load fine when using Photoshop Elements, and if I open and save the images in Elements and override the original image, then Preview does not have any problems opening the same JPEG. Is this just the way Preview works, or is there something I can do to prevent the error messages. Are the images from my son's camera too large for Preview to open? For simple viewing of digital photos, I like Preview because it creates a preview mode with thumbnails along the side, much like it does for PDF files. By the way, I'm using Preview on both my iMac and my wife's iBook, both running OSX 10.3.9. Both have 1gig RAM. I get the error message in Preview on both computers. Thank you for any input.

Hey Dan,
You might try going to preferences and in Images
Default image scale
Pick: Scale large images to fit display and nothing else
Then in PDF set to scale: 50%
After you do this QUIT Preview so the changes will take effect.
I use Preview a lot, but there are times when another image viewer is needed
and I suggest you take a look at ACDsee. This is Ver. 1.6 which is the one I use with my Panther and it works great.
You can find it here:
http://www.soft32.com/download_104490.html
Mic
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