Lightroom and Photoshop render D3 files differently?

I just picked up the Nikon D3 this week and when I load the first images onto Lightroom I was shocked by how over saturated the images looked. My previous camera was a D200 and I've used Lightroom from the beginning. When I pushed the file out to Photoshop the image looked 'normal' (ie, not oversaturated, skin tones were in reasonable ranges, etc.). Is this a common problem, with a resolution?
Thanks.

I just borrowed a D3 to shoot a concert:
www.dfolio.com/proofs/SketchesMay08
so I admit to having very little experience with the D3. With that caveat, I'm having EXACTLY the same problem with images loaded into LR and I'm shooting RAW. It comes in looking fine then it says "Rendering Preview" and the result is noisier and oversaturated to the point of looking like a watercolor.
This is NOT a monitor issue, this is NOT a user preset issue just to get those out of the way. This is a camera profile issue in LR. The same kind of thing happens with pics out of my 5D where a lot of red is removed from the image so that the result looks very different than the JPG generated by the camea or a raw conversion using Canon tools. The only fix was to create a user preset to correct the images if they're from the 5D.
I'm sure it's the same thing here. The reason the first guy seems to be getting a better picture in PS is because ACR is not using the same camera profile (if any coming out of LR) and if you choose Edit Original without applying LR adjustments, it's the equivalent of zero'ing out the automatic camera profile adjustments that are made to any photo that gets imported.
My shots were all at very high ISO so it could be that LR is applying a strange profile in the high ISO range (I haven't tested any "normal" images yet but that's where the trouble lies. It's not unique to the D3 but it's waaaaay more extreme at least with these high ISO images.
If anyone has done the work to create a better preset for the D3, I would love to get a copy.'
Jonathan

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