NEF import: default brightness set to +50 and contrast to +25 -- why?

When importing D80 NEF RAW files, brightness is always pre-set to +50 (and contrast to +25). When "corrected" to zero, one would have to do an expose compensation for the images to appear with regular exposure.
I feel pretty uncomfortable with that behavior and do not thing it is intuitive. Should not the brightness control default to zero? Is brightness +50 semantically equivalent to "no brightness correction"? Is this kind of a workaround? Or is there some exposure <-> brightness optimization going on?
(Lightroom 1.0, Windows XP, Import/"Develop Settings" are set to "None".)

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