Prints DO NOT come out like I edited them in Lr!

When I edit my photos in Lr, they look stunning!  When I export them to my computer (pictures) to store them and send them off to a photolab, the quality is awful!  My pictures are very dark, grainy, blurry and sometimes distorted!  For example, I enjoy using the presets to make some of my exposures look aged.  When I recieve the print, it looks too dark and ruins the "aged look" I was going for.  I shoot in raw, and my resolution when exporting is 500.  Any ideas to help me?  I'm getting frustrated and wasting money printing what I intend to be gifts for family and friends?  It could possibly be my photolab that I am using but I want to make sure that all my export settings are accurate too. Thanks!
Jess

Looks like a classic case of your monitor's being set too brightly.
Take a blank piece of white photo paper and hold it next to a empty word processor document on the screen. Is the screen brighter than the paper? It almost certainly is.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/why_are_my_prints_too_dark.shtml
Here is some good reading on the subject.
Distilled down: You need to have a good regiment of color profiling for you monitor that includes setting the brightness to an appropriate level.

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