Previews are splotchy

Hello, I've been having trouble with Lightroom for awhile. I have a Sony Vaio laptop which is fairly new, my old one died, but I used Lightroom 2 on it with no problems for a long time. I'm not sure if the trouble started with this new laptop or not, I can't remember but I just upgraded to Lightroom 4 and I'm still having this problem. My problem is that the dark areas of my photos in the previews are splotchy, for a lack of a better word word. I can view the image in Picasa and it looks fine, if I export it as a jpg from Lightroom it's also fine. I've tried deleting previews, optimizing the catalog, changing various settings, but nothing seems to work. I've also tried changing various display settings on my laptop but I have yet to find an answer. Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about. Instead of a nice green gradient behind the flower, it's very pixelated and splotchy. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

I always suspect a broken monitor profile when I see something like that. AFAIK Picasa isn't color managed and just ignores the monitor profile, so it wouldn't be affected.
Is it calibrated in any way? If so, recalibrate. I've no idea what sort of monitor profile a Sony Vaio would set up as default, but you can try to replace it with sRGB (if it isn't already) and see if that clears it up. Go to Control Panel > Color Management > Devices. It should look like this:
But to be clear, the proper way to do this is to use a calibrator to make a new custom profile. Even though a laptop screen is never ideal for image editing, calibration should improve things.
EDIT: I see you have PS CS4 there too. Does it behave the same way?

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