Exported JPEG differs from Lightroom image

Hi all....
When I export my photos from lightroom as JPG, the colors of the photo are dramatically changed. (image looks much colder)
As first, I thought I may be a problem wiht the colour space, but I have try changing them without any success...
Any idea??
Thanks in advance...

Sorry that I didn't answer sooner. I must have missed this thread and your questions.
I haven't started calibrating my monitor yet (I've left it at sRGB for right now), but what I really want is for what I see in Lightroom to be the same as what I (and others) see on Flickr.
The only way to get other people to see close to the same thing as you see in Lightroom is to calibrate and profile your own monitor and export to sRGB. If you have a good monitor yourself, with a gamut close to sRGB, you will get very close correspondence between Lightroom and unmanaged browsers. If your monitor is one of the wide gamut deals or a crappy laptop with a very small gamut, your display in the unmanaged browser will always be completely wrong, even if you use sRGB. Nothing you can do about that. On such displays you basically have to use a managed browser. The Lightroom display will ALWAYS correspond to your browser if the browser is color managed and you correctly calibrated the screen. Color managed browsers include Safari, Firefox (with some problems) and development versions of Chrome.
because my monitors are set to sRGB
You don't want to do that. It is an OK test for a corrupt monitor profile, but it guarantees incorrect color. LR and your unmanaged browser might look the same, but they are both wrong. Calibrate and profile.
If I properly calibrate my monitor, the colors coming out of Lightroom when exporting to sRGB should still be the same as what I see while working in Lightroom, right, or am I better off with sRGB color profiles so that they're always exactly the same?
As I explain above, the colors when you calibrate and export to sRGB will look almost the same in unmanaged browsers except when you have a display with a gamut very different from sRGB. The problem is that under no realistic circumstance can a unmanaged browser show you correct color.

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