Incorrect colors after importing a Canon XTI RAW image into LR

I've been using LR for about a week now and love it. However, it does a poorer job of rendering RAW images (and therefore also exporting to JPG) than Canon's Digital Photo Professional. LR image have a sickly yellow+green for skin tones vs. Canon's images, which are more Red.
I've tried every combination of compensating for this by twiddling with white-balance settings, Hue, Saturation etc. but have been unsuccessful in getting the images to look as gorgeous as Canon's Digital Photo Pro does out-of-the-box. That's, of course, extremely frustrating since I like LR's features so much better. Help! Has anyone solved this? I've seen similar postings on various web sites (eg. www.dpreview.com), but no one seems to have a solution yet!
Thanks.

Yes, I've tried various suggested solutions in this forum and others. The problem is that so far they have all been one-of solutions. ie. if I spend about 30+ mins on a given picture, I can make it look like what Canon's Digital Photo Professional does right off the bat. Additionally, the presets that I've seen recommend only seem to work for a given lighting condition. When the light is even slightly different, the resulting preset processed LR image ends up over-corrected or generally looking unappealing.
Here is an example that shows I'm still struggling with this issue. Here are examples of pictures: http://public.fotki.com/eshwars/lr-issues/ All I did to get the JPG image was the following:
1. Opened the CR2 file in DPP, "Convert and Save" with Image Quality=10, Output Resolution=350 dpi. Output image is named: DPP_20070408_4038.JPG
2. Imported and opened the very same CR2 file in LR. Used "Export Photos" to JPG. Image quality=100, Color space=sRGB, Resolution=350dpi. Output image is named: LR_20070408_4038.jpg
3. I tried "compensating" for LR based on suggestion in another forum by modifying the Camera Calibration settings in LR. Hue=-40, Saturation=+10. I've tried other values as well, but it just doesn't look as good as DPP does by default. Output image is named: LR_20070408_4038_compensated.jpg
I would greatly appreciate some pointers that does not require me to custom-fixup every image.
The editing capabilities of LR are wonderful (!), but if the end-result simply looks not-so-pleasing for Canon RAW images, it simply wouldn't be practical to use for Canon users. :(

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