Why is my preview area showing only greyed out boxes instead of photos?

I am unable to import my photos so they can be seen.  Whether I try to import them from the hard drive, camera card, or my desktop (following the tutorial), I do not see photographs in the preview area, only greyed out boxes instead of photos.  If I imported 6 photos, I have six greyed out (photo-sized) boxes.  The specific photos are there somehow, becuase they are properly named when I scroll the mouse over them, but I see only flat grey, no pictures.  As I said, this happens even when I follow the tutorial and import from my desktop.

George,
I appreciate you responding to my inquiry.  We (that would be the "royal" we, which would be my husband) finally determined that the monitor was not configured properly.  "We" discovered this out after uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom several times.
To answer your question, I was trying to import both photos taken in JPEG, as well as RAW, both were problematic.  I could import no images.  It was interesting that I could tell all of the data was coming over (when I floated the cursor over a grayed-out box I could read the data), just not the images. 
I have a Nikon D5100.  I purchased Lightroom 5.0 just before now(two days ago), and was trying to install and play with it.  I upgraded to 5.2 as I was going into it for the first time (it is an automatic question).  I knew there was obviously a problem when I couldn't see any images.  Particularly when I went into the tutorials -- it just reemphasized that something was wrong.  Who ever thinks of how their monitor is configured?????
Thank you for following up.  I was very frustrated for many, many hours. 
Kelly

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