Ok, I give up. You people see it. Adobe sees it. I don't.
What gives? What do I have to do to make it do the same thing?
I just reset Bridge to generate 100% previews after unchecking that item and purging the files. Next I reset 100% previews, and yep, regenerating started. But it said "generating 100% ", something like that, which is: duh!
Going back to that file does not regenerate anything.
So tell me what I am doning/not doing to avoid this problem. Seems to me since I have the "perfect" machine (hah!) I should be able to infect it with some sort of action on my part which is a legit action. Now that should be reproduceable.