LR3 Camera Calibration Causes Noise

Hi everyone,
I've just recently started noticing some strange noise in the background of my portraits.  For example (noise most apparent, when viewing jpg against black background):
I shot the image on a Nikon D700 (full frame) with a 70-200mm VRII at native ISO (200) under studio strobe and as RAW; the crop is taken from an unedited image (I'm using Adobe camera RAW 6.5), the only changes to the default lightroom settings are in the camera calibration section: I've got the default set to Camera Neutral (beta 2) instead of the factory defaults.  When I tweak the white balance (which was set on Auto) I can eventually make the noise go away, although this is a less than ideal solution.
When I change the camera calibration settings to something like Adobe Standard , I get the following:
As you can see, smooth as silk.  Now, have anyone seen this before?  Is the only remedy: not to set the setting to Camera Neutral (in fact it seems every setting causes the noise except for ACR4.6 and Adobe Standard)?  Am I missing something?
Thanks for all your thoughts!

it looks like some sort of answer is here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/780605
it seems to do the trick...

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