Thumbnail problem solved!!!
Thank you Mike and tbunkley. Went to "manage thumbnail cache" and removed "orphaned thumbs". That helped so I went back and dumped everything past 6 months. That got rid of 7147 old thumbs!!!!! Now they load in seconds!!!
Thanks again.....
Well I guess that would make sense if you had some thumbnails that were corrupted and Qimage was trying to load them. I was thinking the images themselves were corrupted but it sounds like you had some old "hangnails".

Mike