Nikon D70s Raw files extremely noisy

I have a bunch of NEF files from my Nikon D70s that look terrible when imported with Lightroom (or Photoshop on the Mac or iPhoto or Photoshop on the PC, for that matter). Here is a screen capture of one of the photos at 1:1 zoom:
http://solace.stanford.edu/~beers/Photo/lightroom.png
And another, from iPhoto:
http://solace.stanford.edu/~beers/Photo/iphoto.png
Note the "maze-like" pattern that is embedded into the image, making it useless except when downsampled and blurred.
Here is the same image read into Picasa (which also apparently reads camera raw files) on the PC:
http://solace.stanford.edu/~beers/Photo/picasa.png
The pattern is gone and the image is usable.
This is happening on my Mac running Leopard in Photoshop CS3, Lightroom (both using ACR 4.3.1), iPhoto, and Photoshop CS3 on the PC. Anyone have any idea what is going on?
Andrew

> I believe only pictures from that particular setting (grey background, grey rug, softbox lights, etc.) exhibited the noise in question
Hold on. Did you use some filter as well? Was there some strong light from the side?
> you suggest that there are multiple raw images which are combined?
No. I am not sure what you mean, perhaps the two different greens?
The pixels sites have filters over them: green, red or blue. They are arranged in a regular pattern; in case of the D70 this pattern consists of two rows of two pixels each. The first row contains a blue and a green pixel, the second row starts with a green and then a red.
If you download this image and view it in at least 600%, then you see this arrangement. (This image is very greenish, mainly because half of the pixels is green, while only 1/4 of them is red and another quarter is blue. This is a non-demosaiced image.)
http://www.panopeeper.com/Demo/Andrew_DSC_0014_crop.tif
The values of green pixels, which are "diagonally neighbours" should be close to each other on the relative uniform areas, like the face, but they are not. You can verify that on this image as well if you increase the magnification even more, so that you can navigate over the pixels; however, the numerical differences you see here are much reduced from the original differences.
Anyway, I was referring to the green pixels in the alternating rows, once beside reds, once beside blues; they responded very differently.

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I am using Windows 7. I tried selecting the folder that contained the folder holding the pictures to be converted. I then single-clicked the folder holding the pictures and hit select. A message came up stating that the source folder did not contain any supported camera raw files.I have spoken with my Elements software supplier and this is his response:
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