DNG conversion is not lossless...HELP!

I am being forced to use the dng converter in order to use my colorchecker software. I'd rather not do this at all, but the colorchecker only recognizes the dng format. My original files are NEF and I usually convert them to TIFF to do my research. This conversion, using the nikon software, is compeltely lossless and i have varified this mathematically. I am using the DNG converter 6.5 to convert my NEF files to DNG and then photoshop CS5 to convert to TIFF. At some point in this process the conversion becomes lossy. Mathematical analysis of the two images (NEF -> TIFF and NEF->DNG->TIFF) shows dramatic differences in pixel values. Any suggestions?

Have you tried the DNG Converter 6.6. Release Candidate to see if this makes any difference?
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/cameraraw6-6.html

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I originally thought this may have had something to do with Bridge and trying to save way too many files through acr in bridge, since bridge is a bit of a ram hog at times and has cache issues, so I tried using the Adobe DNG Converter standalone application, and the same thing happened.
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1. what is the file size for large and medium?
Medium is screen sized, the other option is full sized, not large.
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Lightroom generates it's own preview. It's just handy for portability, so how the file looks is available to programs that can't understand the internal settings.
3. Where do these "Previews" come into play?
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