Problem: New photos in LR 3.3 but old process version

Question

I have a strange problem when importing new pictures to Lightroom 3.3 (Mac, OSX 10.5.8):
Whenever I have imported some pictures and beging working on them in the Devleop module, I get the exclamation point with LR asking me if I want to upgrade the process version from 2003 to 2010.
The pictures are "brand new" and have not been imported in LR 2, so I really don't understand why LR thinks the images have been worked on with a previous process version. I have even uninstalled LR 2 from my system, hoping this would eliminate the problem. Not so...
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Yeah, I think we all have somewhat different ways of doing things in our workfklows :-)
Just to clarify, let me explain what works for me (at least at the moment)
Copy all images from memory card to new, appropiately named folder on computer's hard drive
Rename all files in that folder according to year, month, client, project etc.
Back-up the folder to external RAID 1 hard drive (and later run Time Machine on another external drive to make a second back-up copy)
Browse through images in Bridge or Nikon View NX 2, select the ones I want to work with and apply rating
Use filter to only show rated images (i. e. selects)
Import selects to Lightroom and, most likely, narrow number of selections further down by using LRs flag rating
Edit final selects in Lightroom and Photoshop
My aim with this workflow is to things:
1) Make sure I always have ALL images captured during any shoot, (properly organised in a folder and with filenames that are easily identified) - but not necessarily all managed by Lightroom
2) Prevent the LR catalog file from growing to gargantuan dimensions and slowing down performance
I realise that LR is super powerful for renaming, rating, sorting, selecting etc. On the other hand, I see no need for LR to keep track of 100 RAW files from a shoot when I only need, say, 10 of those images for the client
If, at some point in the future, a client should want to review all the images from the shoot and maybe want some more than originally selected, I can still find all the original files quickly and import additional selects into LR to work on.
Well, that's just my way of doing things at the moment. I am sure it will change over time.
Oh, there is by the way one exception:  When I am shooting in the studio, I almost always shoot tethered directly into LR. Which means that in these cases, all images from the shoot are obviously imported to and managed by Lightroom... :-)
Regards,