LR3 Help displays LR3 Beta Help

Clicking on "Lightroom Help" in LR3 version 3.0 brings up a file titled "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta.  If I click on "Lightroom Help and Support", then click on  "Additional Help" and then click on "Lightroom 3 Help" I finally get to the real "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3" help file.   How can I get LR3 to go directly to it's correct help file?

Working on essentially zero help from Adobe support and confirmation of my thoughts from Apple Support (they said that, of course, they didn't know Adobe well enough to identify a specific file but they suspected a preferences-type file generated by LR3 and that it had to exist in my User account directory tree since other accounts worked), I started a pull-it-out-and-try attempt to find the offending file.
Finally found a file under preferences entitled chc.4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1 which, when removed from the Preferences folder, allowed LR to automatically generate a new file of the same name which worked properly.
The removed file was 53 KB, the new one was 73.7 MB, obviously indicating serious munging of the original file.  I have no idea how this actually came about, but suspect incomplete removal of the old LR3 Beta files.
As was suggested, other Help files are grouped with the LR3 Help files.  As i opened each application (Bridge, CS5, LR3) they automatically "Updated Local Content" and displayed their respective (correct) help files.
What a pain in the neck; I'm glad this is over!
Message was edited by: Ace Mandu
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