Using the Mac Preview App to view Photoshop .psd files

When I click on a Photoshop .psd file and open it using Preview, there is always a large gray square somewhere in the picture, usually near the left border. This occurs whether the layers in the file have been flattened or not so it doesn't represent another layer. When I view the file in Photoshop, it is just fine. So it appears to be an issue with how Preview views the file. Any suggestions?

Thanks both Andreas and Bob. By the way Bob, have you tried importing the example file that I referred to? As stated earlier this problem does not show up with every PSD file (in my testing I can see that about 50% of my (flat) files shows up as gray (all the files are perfectly OK in Photoshop (CS2) and in Bridge however).
The example file can be found here:
Full size (around 41MB):
http://www.jjohanson.com/II7A0241.psd
Cropped to make downloads faster (3.7MB):
http://www.jjohanson.com/II7A0241crop.psd
Exported to JPEG (170KB)
http://www.jjohanson.com/II7A0241-1.jpg
Jørgen

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