Nasty highlights problem in Lightroom

I've been a die-hard Nikon Capture user for some time but am trying out LR. On the whole I really like it and would buy it as it is likely to save me a load of time post-processing big event shoots.
However this evening I've found a really quite nasty problem with highlight detail that is now seriously putting me off the product.
OK, take a look at this picture. This is straight out of my D200 with no processing applied in Nikon Capture 4:
http://www.robgillespiephoto.co.uk/piccies/fire_nc1.jpg
This second example is the same NEF file but fed through Lightroom - all values defaulted:
http://www.robgillespiephoto.co.uk/piccies/fire_lr1.jpg
Notice how bad the flames look?
OK, this one has been run through Lightroom but with the highlight recovery setting maxed out to 100:
http://www.robgillespiephoto.co.uk/piccies/fire_lr2.jpg
But wait, look at this 100% crop from the same processed version - notice the odd red pixels that look a bit like paint has been daubed on the photo:
http://www.robgillespiephoto.co.uk/piccies/fire_lr3-crop.jpg
I've tried playing with both Exposure and Recovery settings and this is as good as I can get it. I'm really disappointed that LR is not able to process this highlight detail sufficiently.

What is the color temp you have natively there, and what is set in LR?
You could post the RAW file for folks to take a crack at converting it to your taste. The only other one today was too cold <2000k to be properly processed. ?Er, don't think that's the problem here....

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