Lightroom 4.2 is converting images to b&w upon import.

My lightroom 4.2 installation just started automatically converting all my images to b&w on import. It looks like is applying a preset, but the develop settings are set to none. I can open the image with the canon raw file tools, and with Picasa in full color no problem. Has anyone come across this before or have any suggestions?

Look at the toning area of Develop when viewing one of these photos and determine what makes the photos B&W: the Treatment set to Black & White along the top of the Basic toning section or the Saturation = 0 at the bottom of the Basic toning section or something else?
Regardless of which, perhaps you saved new LR defaults when on a photo with no color. Do you know if you have purposely set new LR defaults at any point? If not then it’s probably safe to reset the defaults; otherwise, you might check what things are changed in your current defaults and then reset things back to factory defaults then create new defaults with the settings you want.
To set new LR Default settings, you press and hold the Alt and click the Set Default… button. This will ask if you want to reset to the Adobe defaults or set the defaults to the settings of the current photo. For the latter, you’ll want to have a photo set to exactly the settings you want all imported photos (from that camera) to have.

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