Help, blurry images in lightroom 3

All of a sudden, every image that I import to lightroom 3 looks out of focus in the library and develop modules unless I zoom in. Then when I export the image, it still looks out of focus. This has never happened before, and is not due to camera error, as I loaded the same images into LR2 and they are perfect. I also tried re loading old images that I know are in focus back into LR3 and they now appear blurry. Please help

Sorry, here is my screenshot:
Bernhard

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