Lightroom to Photoshop to Lightroom colour change

Hi,
Anyone have an answer for this? I have a Canon 5d. Raw file in Lightroom. I adjust it in lightroom then select edit it in Photoshop but leave it unchanged. It becomes a .psd which is saved and then viewed back in lightroom. The colours have now changed. The greens for one are less saturated. The whole picture is less 'vivid'. The monitor is calibrated. Photoshop is editing in ProPhoto. yet the Raw and the .psd copy in Lightroom are different colour shades.??
Regards,
Lennythelens

> What are your color settings in Photoshop? Are you preserving embedded profiles? Are all the profile-mismatch dialogs enabled?
Yes. and Yes. I am not doing and conversions. I comes over straight from Lightroom in ProPhoto RGB
I am using CS2 BTW.
Anyone willing to try this out themselves and see?

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Points 1, 2, 3 - I agree.
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