Previews after an edit in photoshop - bad color

OK, Monitor is calibrated. Images look fine in lightroom after import. Then I make some adjustments in the Develop module and pass the file off to photoshop CS2. I save the file and it shows up in lightroom as an (filename)-edit.psd. Great except that the color in the thumbnail and the preview is NOT the same as what it looks like in photoshop. If I reopen the image in photoshop it looks fine, but if I export the images from Lightroom it looks like the bad image I see in lightroom. All of the color spaces are set to ProRGB.
Anyone know what is happening?

You can also choose 'ZIP' Image Compression in both the LR and/or PS Save dialogue. If adding layers also choose 'ZIP' under Layers Compression. This will typically reduce the file size by ~25-50%.
5D MKII files
Raw 25MB
TIFF 100 MB
TIFF (ZIP) 75 MB
Another option is to setup a second editor using PS 32bit, assuming you have both PS 64 bit and 32bit installed. Don't make any radical Histogram changes in PS (Curves/Levels) using the 8 bit/color JPEG, or you may get some banding artifacts. It's usually better to make these adjustments in LR anyhow.
I have my LR4 2nd Editor setup to use PS 32 bit, primarily because some of my plugins are only 32 bit. I use TIFF 16 bit ProPhoto RGB for my second editor, but you can certainly use JPEG as below.

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-------------------------- BEGIN NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
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.type = 2 <ERROR>
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.type = 16 <0x10>
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.seq = 1421583995
.port = 1853883468
--------------------------- END NETLINK MESSAGE ---------------------------
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See the here on my Dropbox for better understanding (for some reason I cannot upload the pics directly here):
Dropbox - adobe help
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