Lightroom,Nik plugins and color spaces

I'm having an issue and not sure who is holding the smoking gun. I have the Nik ultimate collection installed which covers Lightroom and Photoshop CS5 extended. I work primarily in Lightroom and apply most corrections globally but occasionally i need to do localized adjustments so the photo gets shipped off to Photoshop. Here's a typical scenario:
1) From Lightroom edit in Dfine 2.0 for noise - as copy with Lightroom adjustments which gets copied as a tiff.
2) From Lightroom edit in Viveza 2 - as original since we're now working with a tiff and I don't want a copy for every single thing I'm doing.
3) Edit in Photoshop
Now there's two issues at this point:
1) The edits do not show up in the Lightroom history - it's like nothing happened.
2) Photoshop will complain that the assigned profile is sRGB. Really?
#1 is a PITA because if I want to rewind I have to start all over since there's no history - what exactly is responbsible to set an edit as history? Lightroom or the plugin?
#2 is by far the most serious as it degrades the work in a seriously bad manner. I mean, WTH - I'm moving along in ProPhoto Ferrarri space and all of a sudden - *boom* - I'm running in sRGB moped mode.
I looked at edit->Preferences->External Editing -> Additional External Editor and indeed when I select the Nik plugins from the combo box preferences the default for the plugins is sRGB. I can change to ProPhoto and quit. I repeated this for each plugin assuming that somewhere the setting was remembered. Nope LR acts dumb as a rock and shows sRGB as the defaults for all except the currently selected plugin.
So my questions are:
- who's gonna own up to the problem - LR or Nik?
- how can I work around it?
- how can I make LR remember the settings? Not a registry key nor INI file in sight to set them - so where/how are the plugins tracked?
Thanks for any help!
Jon

Jon,
The User Interface for changing how external editors are invoked is about as smart as your average chunk of granite.
After you change the Color Space to the one you want, you have to click on the Preset box and choose "Save current settings as new preset...". Not exactly intuitive, but there you are.
Hal

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