Exporting Issues - Grainy HELP!

I have been shooting pics on my Canon Xti in RAW format. I am importing them into Lightroom and adjust the white balance and a little exposure. When I export them, they look horriblly grainy. I am exporting to JPEG at 300 Pixels per Inch using SRGB. I am running LightRoom 1 on a Vista operating system. Any help is appreciated. I have attached a pic showing the grain.
You can see her hair and her neck don't look right.

1. This image is terribly motion blurred 80 mm at 1/40s at f5.6? That's never going to look very good for a portrait like this using a lens without IS. Part of your problem is simply this motion blurring. Check your technique!
2. Make sure you are at LR 2.3, not 2.0
3. You used ISO 400 and some amount of shadow fill. This will give you noise for sure as the image was probably lightly underexposed requiring you to add shadow fill. At those settings, you will see some noise when zoomed in.
4. What is the real problem? What you are seeing is the noise causing jpeg compression artefacts. To get the file this small, you probably had to dial down the quality quite a bit. So two things. You might want to play with the noise reduction to get smoother images (always zoom the image to 1:1 to see the actual noise). This will also allow you to compress the file better without loss of quality. And 2. Dial up your jpeg export quality. You should probably be above 80 to not see the jpeg artefacts with this image. For this image size that will be a file of about 1 meg or larger.

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