Win7, CS4 and NEF files

I've been using CS4 with XP for about 7months with no problems. I installed Win7 a few days ago and now seem to have an issue. Many of my Nikon raw files, nef, do not open in PS or Br. The icons don't show with a image in Br, just the generic NEF icon image. Some of my older NEF files work, but none of my recently taken photo files in RAW work. When I open a folder with RAW files, sometimes they show briefly then change to the generic image and won't open. I'm running CS4 with all settings to default.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance...Jack

Hmmm...I guess I'm getting old. I had reinstalled CS4 Design Suite and still had the problem. Then I checked for updates, and I downloaded them. I just did not notice the window behind the other windows that said there was a problem with the install. So, I reloaded the updates and rebooted. When I went back to my folders with raw files, they updated. It was my impression, they were doing this in the order in which they were created. So if when I checked a recent folder, nothing updated. But when I went back to the oldest folder they started to update to show the icon and be opened in ACR and Ps. Thanks for your help. I'm glad this worked because when I looked in the Plug-ins...I had a ton of them because I do have some plugin programs loaded.
Thanks again!

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