ACR vs. LR 4

I am wondering whether ACR and LR4 are the same or different..
I have been using ACR (6.7)  in photoshop CS5 for post processing camera images in Windows 7 environment.
After processing ACR, the processed image returns to Photoshop in jpeg.  
I always noticed the considerable change in colors in processed jpg from the images seen in the ACR-screen.
About a month ago, I installed Lightroom 4.  After processing in LR4, images were  exported by "edit in Photoshp CS5" in tiff format. After further processing and resizing in Photoshop, images were saved as jpg format.   With LR4, there was no change in color.  The image I see in the final jpeg is the same as I see in LR4.  The same is also true when exported directly as jpeg from LR4.
This implies that ACR and LR are not exactly the same.   That's why I decided not to bother ACR anymore.
How can I fix the color  problem with ACR? 

This is what I meant when I said that you were kind of caught "in between". I am in the same situation. ACR 6.7 cannot make changes using process version 2012. It's "native" process version is 2010. So if you open an image in ACR 6.7 it will be in PV 2010. The difference is that when you send an image from Lightroom 4 to Photoshop that has been edited in PV 2012 ACR 6.7 is used to interpret the changes that you made in Lightroom, and it will recognize PV 2012 adjustments. Therefore, if you want those adjustments you should not try to open your images directly in ACR. If you want to do that, and want to use PV 2012, then you will have to upgrade to Photoshop CS 6.
I know this is more than kind of confusing. It's driving a lot of people nuts, and a lot of time is devoted to explaining the difference in the forums. Lightroom 4 was released before it was ready and Adobe is trying to satisfy everyone. Good try, but I hope they don't do this again.
The one good thing about the way this has been handled is that, for the first time, users can have the current version of Lightroom and still have all of the adjustments read in a version of Photoshop/ACR that is one version out of date.

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