Images Shown In Wrong Colors

Hello,
I have a problem in Lightroom.
I just Lightroom 3 a try, only it turns out the colors of the images aren't displayed correctly.
It gives this darker and sort off green-heavy version of the originals.
It's kind of funny cause they look like film-photos developed badly or something.
Anyway, some time ago I tried an earlier version of Lightroom and I think at first the colors were fine,
later it turned into what I just described because I believe I touched something.
So does anyone know how I can get the colors to be displayed correctly?
Please note, I did a fresh install of Lightroom and removed anything Lightroom-related before.
And all colors outside Lightroom or even the look of the panels of Lightroom and such are correct.
So all image-viewers, all videos, all other media... they all look right.
Even in Photoshop, where I had a similar issue too but it was some colorspace-setting or something.
But apparently Lightroom doesn't have that?
Oh, AND I found that when I'm at the import-interface, the thumbnails of the images are shown correctly.
Then when I select the ones I want and actually import them to use they're not the same anymore.
If anyone has a clue, or the solution of course, that would be great.
Cause this is really unfortunate, I was looking forward to using this,
especially now I have a camera that supports RAW, I wanted to develop them in Lightroom.
(Oh yeah, the images I tried were simply JPEG-photos by the way.)
Greetings...

OK, I understand it quite a bit better now, thanks for all your posts.
But I did have an issue with Photoshop (CS3 as in the screenshot) a couple of months ago.
I'm not sure what it looked like, but it was also this issue with wrong colors.
Then I messed around with those "Proof"-settings and set it to the "monitor"-one.
I guess that's the same as using no color-profiles? As they (Ps & Lr) look identical now I mean...
I'm not sure what it was set to before by the way, I think it was set to a certain profile too.
Then I kinda steered away from choosing a profile and selected that "monitor"-option I guess.
Sorry, can't remember exactly, but you probably know what I mean.
At least I can go ahead a bit with Lightroom now.
As long as I keep the original shots I guess there can't go much wrong.
Also, if I print something, would it be a good idea to match the look of the monitor closer to the print?
At least, if it's off way too much. Or should I check if a specific printer uses no or a correct profile too somewhere?
I do have a nice standalone which is set to sRGB too I believe.
It is funny that I get the prints almost exactly to what they look like on the monitor or camera.
Anyway, I háve been playing around with something called RivaTuner,
which can tweak and load color-profiles on startup, I guess it's similar to what calibration-software would be like?
But I think I turned the loading of those settings off a while ago too though.
Cause it was always "a tad too red, a tad too blue, a tad too green" or whatever for my eyes,
so I thought I'd stop messing with it and leave it neutral which would probably be better anyway...

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