Lightroom changes image colour & density on import

I am setting up a library of my images using Lightroom to import the files at their current location (on my NAS device).
I import with develop presets set to none.
When the images first appear on the library screen, they look normal. Lightroom then "renders" the images one by one, and each image becomes either too bright or the wrong colour!
After rendering, the images look totally different from how they looked before import (eg viewing them in Photoshop or Breezebrowser).
How can I import my files so that they still look the same (without "rendering")?
The images are a mixture of JPEG & RAW format, and this happens to all of them.
Using version 1.3 on a PC with XP Pro.
Thanks

Make absolutely sure your screen calibration is OK. Many canned profiles from monitor manufacturers are bad and lead to wrong color in Lightroom. Only use hardware calibration devices on windows or if you don't have those, leave the profile blank in the monitor's properties panel, which assumes sRGB for the display and get a hardware calibrator as quickly as possible. Also, if you use Photoshop to view images,
make absolutely sure it is setup correctly to respect embedded profiles and to warn for profile mismatches. If you get warnings about profile differences, NEVER choose "do not color manage." Many people set up photoshop completely wrong unfortunately.
Regarding RAW images, read the FAQ in this. ACR/Lightroom rendering is not the same as in-camera processing, which gives you the initial preview you see right after loading the RAW. That preview is not necessarily more or less correct than the ACR rendering. It is just different.

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