Editing files in Elements 7 from Lightroom 2

I currently do most of my processing in Lightroom 2. Occasionally I need to use Elements 7 to carry out some minor adjustments but when I use the "Edit in.." option, in Lightroom, and the picture opens, Elements does not open up the full edit window as it should do for a RAW file and I lose funtionality in Elements; e.g crearting panoramas, making alighnment corrections. The picture opens a tiff or DNG file type.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is it my settings in Lightroom or is it the settings in Elements? I am posting this question in both forums.
Thanks
Stuart

Thanks. i have some panorama's to stitch and this does seem to be something Lightroom cannot manage. The book I have "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2" give the instruction to edit in Photoshop. Perhaps it can be done in CS4 etc but not elements. Any suggestions on the best workflow that will enable me to edit in RAW and then create the Pano?
My thoughts are to edit and then export the RAW files back to the original folder before opening them up from the File, Open command in Elements. A bit messy though. Would you say it is easier to create the Pano in Elements and then "save as" Photoshop RAW file type?
Another reason for using Elements is correcting perspective?
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