New to Lightroom. Why is LR3 importing my color files as B&W

Can someone please help me. I have color photos and when I try and import them, they become B&W.

Do you have a preset specified at import time?
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:06:11 -0700
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Subject: Lightroom 2 won't import Nikon D3s files
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