Any image I open in CS4 has a gray colourcast - why?

I do most of my photo image work in Lightroom having firstly upgraded from v 2.6 to 3 and latterly 3.3. I then do more work and print using CS4 (extended). A couple of weeks ago a nikon raw image opened in CS4 from Lightroom using the image plus all of the Lightroom edits was very dull had lost its vibrancy and looked far worse than the original nef file from the camera.
Following discussion on the lightroom forum I believed the problem lay with an apparent incompatability between lightroom v 3.3 and CS4 the former having been built for CS5. Following the initial upgrade to LR v 3.3 I noticed no problems with transferring an image from LR to CS4. But now ANY image from any source of any file format when opened in CS4 is awful. Even an image that has been modified previously using the software in the days when it all worked as it should.
I have a MacPro running Snow Leopard 10.6.5, 2xquad processors, twin graphics cards and 6gb of ram enough whereby I have never experienced anything but high speed operation. Prior to this problem I have been using the set-up for 18months with varying versions of lightroom being used for the main work with CS4 being used for specialist work without a problem.
My Lightroom uses ACR 5.7. Even if I use NX2 to enhance the image instead of LR I still get the awful results when I transfer that file to CS$ either as a raw file or a TIFF with the edits rendered.
The colour space selected throughout is Adobe RGB 1998.
Does anyone have any idea what has gone wrong?

Hi Chris
I did that and do you know it seems to have sorted out the problem. It is nice t
have that happen OK now (edit in photoshop CS4 from LR 3.3 including LR edits)
but on the last number of raw images they won't open at all in CS4 after getting
the message 'Lightroom was unable to prepare the selected file at
/Volumes/Images/Raw Images/D3s Raw/Malaysia:Penang 2011 Raw/D3s0115.NEF for
editing.
It will not be opened.' now that has only started as has a little 'i' button
lower RHS of image area in LR3.3 which says 'update to current process'.
But is great to have solved one issue but now what looks like a smaller lesser
one to contend with. Not sure if it is from the camera or in LR or CS4.
Thanks.

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