Conversion to DNG in LR alters settings to worse

After adjusting the images to the desigered look (exposure, recovery, fill light and midtone contrast) I converted to DNG using the build in LR conversion. Most of the images look the same, but about 1/4 of the images have become dull and grayish looking.
I see that LR have sett every setting to zero on these pictures, and the only way of recovery is the readjust the picture. The changes to the bad have also affected the embedded JPEG version.
I have experienced this two times before. Are there any way of salvation, so I can avoid readjusting the images?
I am also interested in, why this happens in LR, is the DNG converter bad in ver. 1.0 or is it simply the DNG format I should avoid and sti ck with the Canon CR2 RAW format?
Kind regards
Klaus

Just found out, that if you in the develop mode selects "copy before's setings to after" then the damage is restored. It is almost like LR is looking at the alteration it has done when converting to the DNG as a user requested operation (not the dng conversion but the alteration of colours and so forth)
This doesn't particually make be comfortable using the DNG instead of Canons CR2.

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