Color differences between LR and other editing/viewing programs

Thanks for the great info here. I'm hoping someone might know the answer to a question that is driving me over the edge. I SURE would appreciate sincerely any help. My problem is this:
If I load a picture into Word, Firefox, IE, or other picture editing programs, they all look very much the same. BUT, when I load the same pic into Lightroom Beta or now Lightroom 1.0, it is SIGNIFICANTLY warmer by at least +10 or so.
This is a real problem in that if I export a pic, say, to Outlook for emailing, it looks very blue in comparison to when in LR. So, I have to go back into LR and edit the pic to a look that looks not right in LR in order for the exported pic to look right in any other viewing program.
I have calibrated my monitor, but if you note what I said above, it can't be due to calibration -- i.e., that pics look the same in all programs except LR. (I'm using Windows XP). Many thanks for any help.

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Don
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