Inaccurate colors in organizer thumbnails

System is Win7
PSE 8; RAW
I've been using this system for several months without problems. Yesterday I took some flower pictures, but when I imported them into the organizer the color was way off - very red. They were correct in camera and in the PSE uploader. I took some jpg files and they came into the organizer with correct color. It appears to be just the RAW files.
I've restarted the computer several times.
I've deleted the elements preferences a couple of times.
I reinstalled ACR 5.6 ( did have 5.4).
Any suggestions as to why this suddenly started? Or what to check next?
Thanks
Megs

The Organizer has a known bug where it doesn't display the colors correctly of JPEGs taken with the Adobe RGB color space. But I haven't heard of similar symptoms for raw files. Some troubleshooting:
1. Invoke the full editor on one of the pics. Do the colors show up correctly in the Adobe Camera Raw editor?
2. Open that pic in the full Editor. Do the colors show up correctly?
3. In the Organizer, select the pic and do Edit > Update Thumbnail. Do the colors now show correctly?
4. View the pic in the Organizer's full screen (F11). Do the colors show correctly?
5. Repeat steps 1 - 4 for a previous raw file that you think had correct colors in the past. Are the colors still correct?
6. Repeat steps 1 - 4 for a previous JPEG file that you think had correct colors in the past. Are the colors still correct?

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