Highlights disappear from RAW files

I have a bunch of raw photos that I took from a dinner party. When I use Adobe Bridge (Windows Vista 64)to view them, the raw files look great. If I double click to open one in camera raw and then make no changes at all, just click to save it as a jpeg with the highest quality, the catchlights in people's eyes and any sparkles on jewelry nearly disappear. Do I have something set wrong? I know you lose detail going from raw to jpg, but it should not lose this much. The catchlights nearly fade out completely.
Thanks for any advice.
Jean

Hello,
Thanks for responding. I hardly ever accept the default ACR settings. My problem was that I was NOT making any changes to the RAW file. All I wanted to do was to convert it to a jpg. I think my problem was with Adobe Bridge, though, because once I opened it up in Photoshop, it looked much better, even though it looked horrible in Bridge.
In fact, now Bridge is giving me a different problem. After I save a file as a jpg, it shows up in my Bridge browser. If I click to view it in bridge, the bottom half is completely obliterated with horizonal colored bands. (Looks like the graphics card dying, except it's only in Bridge.)Only random files this happens with. If I open that same file in any other program, it's fine. Aargh!
Jean

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