LR3 weird saving problem in "edit in"photoshop

If i "edit in" photoshop and click save it saves as  TIFF , which is what I have set up in the preferences.  This works fine.
But sometimes I dont want to save a TIFF, sometimes I want to make a PSD file when I am working on layers.  So I click "SAVE AS" and make a PSD file.  This works fine.
BUT here is the problem..... now I am working on a PSD file.  At the top of the window it say filename.psd on the window so this is definitely a PSD file.  But if I click "save" , instead of saving my PSD file it creates turns it into a TIF !!!!! whyyyyy??? It is soo annoying.  So evey time I want to save my PSD file I have to go "Save As" PSD and then put the same file name as the one before and then it gives you the innevitable error message that the file already exists and do you want to overwrite it.
I appreciate that initially when you open a file in photoshop that clicking Save should create whatever file type you specify in the LR3 preferences.  But if you manually select a different file to "save as" when you are in photoshop, Lightroom SHOULD NOT override your decision and still continue to create a TIFF.  This has to be a bug ?
It doesnt even give you a warning one minute you are working on a PSD file and then my reflex action is to hit command+S every five minutes or so to save my changes as i edit the PSD file.  But as soon as I do that it turns it creates a TIFF of the file and now all of a sudden i'm working on a TIF and my original PSD file i created is not being updated at all.

I am having the same exact issue using LR3
PS CS4 running on Vista.  Have already changed default file format to
.psd but Photoshop seems to be spontaneously creating these .tif files when i'm trying to work with .psd files.

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