Lightroom and photoshop display colours differently??

I have just done a colour critical shoot of fashion garments. There is a dramatic difference particularly noticeable in Purple colours between Lightroom and Bridge. Lightroom displays it as blue and Bridge displays it correctly. I cannot figure out why this is - it means that I cannot work in Lightroom as I am not sure if the colour is correct or not.
Please - if anyone can shed some light on this I will be eternally grateful.
By the way I work on a mac with CS3 and the latest lightroom - on a calibrated system so it is not a calibration issue.
Marc

Are you sure that bridge is actually generating previews from the RAW and that you are not just looking at the camera-generated jpeg preview embedded in the RAW? This is pretty typical for bridge to do. The camera-generated preview generally looks very different color-wise from Lightroom and ACR because the camera manufacturer. Test this by double-clicking the RAW in bridge. Usually the color will be quite different from the preview you see in Bridge. After you close ACR, the preview will get updated in Bridge too. The reason behind this color difference is that camera manufacturers use secret, proprietary algorithms to determine the color from the camera's raw sensor data. This color is not necessarily correct, but what they consider "pleasing." If you shoot RAW, your RAW converter supplies its own interpretation of the data. Usually based on shooting color patches with the same camera.

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