LR changes exposure and saturation when previewed or opened

Hello Everyone!
I've got a strange problem. I took 800 raw files with my Nikon D40x camera last weekend. When I imported them with nikon's Picture Project app... they all look rich and saturated in color and have the deep tones I expected and look just like they did on the camera LCD when I took them. Fine.
When I open photoshop and use browse "Bridge" window... they look the same in the thumbnail view... until I click on one... and preview it... then that image suddenly gets about 20% brighter and about 20% less saturated in both the preview and the thumbnail gets updated too... plus one or two on either site of the thumbnail. It appears to be a permanent change in Bridge or ACR.
I downloaded the trial of lightroom 2 and imported all 800 shots... same thing... they look fine until I select one.. then the preview and the thumbnail change before my eyes!
If I go back and look at the photo in Nikon's PictureProject, it looks great.. never again in Photoshops browse or Lightroom 2... what
is going on? Whatever it is doing to it... I don't like it! How do I make it stop?
I found on the forum that there is a check box in LR and Bridge that you want to be sure is UN-checked so that these programs don't automatically adjust your images... but neither app has that box checked.
I've got a lot of images to edit and color correct but I'm afraid to touch them because I don't know who to trust, Nikon Picture Project or Adobe.
Note:... I've normally shot .jpg files.. I've never had this happen with any .jpegs.. it seem to be a NEF conversion thing that adobe and Nikon differ on.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Bruce

Thanks for your response. Yes, it is pretty red... but that is what I was seeing on the camera. I was shooting vivid, and I think with a custom white balance that I set in the shade of a brown and green grassy wooded area... I later forgot to reset my white balance, and shot in the shade with just sky and flash... what color should it really be? I have no idea! I don't really even know how to figure that out at this point. ;-) I thought that understanding why it was so different than my camera would be the first step.
Now that I understand that the camera, when taking a raw photo, doesn't actully save the image with a specific balance, but saves the data, and then puts a filter, vivid or what ever on that as you view it... and saves the thumbnail with that profile... that pretty interesting and eye opening information.
So.. My next step is to figure out how to get it looking rich, and beautiful like the top one without going too far overboard to the red and probalby over saturated top one.
I did print it out on my Epson R320 printer with glossy photo paper and it looks really nice... not as read or over done with the color. The model likes the look of her skin but I think you are right ... it's probably too much...
There are no camera profiles that are in between... so I'll have to experiment I guess... because selcting any of the camera profiles doesn't change the sliders above... so there is no way to know what basic inturpretation is being applied - and thus back that down a bit.
How does any ever really get skin tones a) right and b) better than right so people say... wow that looks great, instead of gee, you sure made the red! ;-)
Espcially if you have no real stake in the ground in the first place. I'm lost right now.

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