Lightroom - edit in PS TIFF compression problem

Hello everybody,
when I send my image to photoshop from lightroom via edit in function, after I save it (ctrl + s) in ps the output tiff file is always uncompressed regardless the compression setting in lightroom.
I noticed it because the sizes of the tiffs are rather huge. I checked the tiff properties in explorer and it says uncompressed indeed. Every other settings in lightroom edit in ps preferences seem to work. This behavior is the same with dngs and jpegs, just when lightroom is handing over the original to ps. It doesn't occur when lightroom renders its own copy and handing it over to ps afterwards.
A workaround is to use save as in ps but anyway..
Am I missing something, or is it a bug? Thanks for your answer.
Lightroom 3.6 64bit, Photoshop CS 5.1 64bit, Win 7. I also tried it with LR 4 beta and it's the same (due to incompatibility Open anyway option). Tiffs always come back uncompressed as well.

I totally agree. This is easy to replicate.   I am running LR4 and PS5 on an IMac.
Open  a 20MB dng file to PS5 from Lightroom and then save via Command S.  Tif file size is 150MB and compression is at level 1.
Open a 20MB dng file directly to PS5  and then use Save As and choose ZIP compression.  Tif file size is 36MB and compression is level 8.
This is a long standing problem!  Is it fixed in PS6?

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