Help with Nik HDR Efex

I have searched the entire LR4 Beta program and I can not determine how/where to have LR4 save my HDR  Tiff results. Once I process the shots in HDR Efex Pro, I save the shot, but it doesn't appear to inport back into LR4. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Wm.

OK. Really confused now. When I right-click on the first (of the three bracketed) shots, and then choose "show in finder", I can see and open the tiff HDR file. So the question is why can't I see the file in the LR4 browser? If it's stacked, I can't find the appropriate action to unstack - I just see the three raw files in LR4. Any help is appreciated.
Wm.

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