Lightroom 3 memory issues (Retail version)... Using 3 GB of RAM?

I never had a problem while using Lightroom 3 BETA #1 and BETA #2, but as soon as I installed the retail version, I started having memory problems.
I have a Lenovo W500 workstation, with a T9900 3.06 GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 7200 rpm HDD.
I am having the same problem as many of you have posted... The retail version of Lightroom 3 consumes massive amounts of memory. You can't tell me it is from previews, or too many pictures, because the BETA 2 version had no problems. An hour after installing the retail version, Lightroom would slow my computer to a near halt.
I just closed Lightroom 3 on my machine after my computer came to a crawl. My RAM usage dropped from 3.75 GB to 0.830 GB. The lightroom.exe task showed it was consuming 2.99 GB.
Here is a screen shot:
This is a screen shot from my Lenovo W500 workstation. The flat line at the beginning is sitting at 3.75 GB of RAM. The transition period is Lightroom performing a backup before closing, and then it closes, and then RAM falls over several seconds to 0.837 GB...
Or see a bigger version at the following link:
http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm129/ss08x/Lightroom3RAM375GB-083GB.jpg
Is there a patch coming out soon? Having to close Lightroom every hour and reboot is not very convenient. :/

I did not see that particular thread, but I did see a few others...
I am uploading two more screenshots of LR3 memory usage. This is a before and after (so you can see the actual #'s), and the transition period is a backup that should only take a couple seconds, but is drawn out longer due to lack of RAM space.
I am hoping Adobe sees these, and hopefully helps them in some way. I just now realized that I forgot to take a screen shot of the lightroom.exe usage. I'll get that next time I suppose.
After I close Lightroom, my computer takes about 20 minutes to recover, and perform like normal again. Or I can reboot and start with a clean slate and then I'm ready to fire up Lightroom up again after a 5 minute break. Then I repeat the process after very little editing.

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