Lightroom is shrinking my file size on export......!?!?! 3meg - 600kb!

Any help with this would be fab! my images come out the camer @ approx 3meg. I upload them into lightroom and make some basic changes (black, contrast, colour etc etc). When I export to 'my pictures' without changing any settings in the export box the images shrink to around 700kb! I am NOT ticking the 'image resize' box.
This has obvious effects on quality and my images are coming out worse than they went in!. I cannot find out why this is happening - any ideas would be great appreciated.
Thanks so much
Ben

There are other things in the export dialog that can affect the size of the exported file.
Under file settings set an appropriate quality setting at least 80 or more and make sure you have not checked the "Limit file size box checked.
Or did you apply a crop to the file?

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You are right.
So I am running AP Pro 5.0.4, Adobe Media Encoder 5.0.1.0 (64bit). Operating system Mac OS X ver 10.7.3. All applications are up to date.
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This is my largest video project (1h 54min) I dont have any other problem with other projects.
I dont run any other special software, at the moment of export all usual applications are closed so that MacBook "power" can go to Media Encoder. No codecs installed, using VLC Player or Quick Time.
Attached please find printscreen from Export settings (AP Pro). Writing this ppost I tried to export only the first 4mins from timeline where all kind of media is used...and it was OK.
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