Poor Panasonic Lumix LX3 RAW color in LR2.5

Hello,
I just bought a Panasonic Lumix LX3. I'm using Lightroom v2.5 to process the RAWs under Mac OS 10.6.2. The color in the LX3 jpegs is very good/accurate, but when I open most RAWs it is taking me a lot of work to get accurate color, especially if there is any blue sky in them, as Lightroom seems to be rendering some colors incorrectly. It's taking me way too much work to get my RAWs to look as good as the jpegs, which pretty much negates the RAW files' greater potential! I have used Lightroom with my Canon 20D and never had this problem. Also, with the LX3's supplied RAW software, SilkyPix, I don't have the RAW color issues. I want to use Lightroom with my LX3's RAWs, but it is very frustrating. Any thoughts or comments would be most helpful.
Thanks,
Greg

I have also had the same color rendering problems with LX3 and LR 2.4-2.6. The JPEG and initial preview looks fine, but the LR raw rendering just doesn't look good.
One solution I tried was to buy a Gretag Macbeth color checker (24 patch) and create a DNG profile for the LX3 using DNG Profile Editor from Adobe. This makes the color rednition significantly better, but the warm color spectrum is still a problem when it comes to high saturated areas.
I still haven't found what I'm looking for...
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
David

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