Problems editing from lightroom to CS3

Hi everyone,
This has quite possibly been addressed in the forums already, but I'm at the stage where I need this fixed now and don't have the time to sift through the existing discussions. I hope that's ok?
I really hope that someone can help me out here. I've tried everything I know already before bothering others to help.
My problem is I'm running a new Lightroom 2 program at work and for some reason it won't convert the RAW files to PSD's for editing in CS3. It doesn't even offer the "What to edit Dialogue" after right clicking on the photo in the flimstrip and choosing "edit in Photoshop CS3". Therefore I don't have the option to "edit a copy with Lightroom adjustments" or "stack with original"....there's nothing. Lightroom immediately transfers the RAW file straight to CS3. In the past it has always converted the RAW file to a PSD. The "Preparing File for Editing" which appears in the top left of the screen also does not appear. After the editing process in CS3, the filmstrip in Lightroom doesn't have stacks of processed photos either...just the original RAW file exists.
I also run lightroom on my computer at home.....with no problems what-so-ever. I even went as far as to copy all the preferences from my home computer to compare with the computer at work. Still no luck. Now for the first week using this on the work computer, I never had any problems....all of a sudden I'm noticing the changes....like in the last week or so. I don't know if some of the settings have been altered by another user, but this is frustrating me no end!!!
Any help or solutions would be greatly appreciated.....I thank you in advance and hope someone can help
Cheers.......SHARON GALLAGHER

Jim thanks for the reply. It's possible that the option not to show the dialogue has been checked....so probably explains why it no longer appears. Since my home program is working fine, I copied all the preferences from there to the work computer like I said. But maybe I missed something??
But the file that lightroom sends to photoshop is indeed a NEF file. (I'm Nikon). In all the external editing preferences in Lightroom, I've chosen PSD files....NEF isn't even there as an option!
There is a status bar that appears in the top left corner of the screen in Lightroom showing the progress of the conversion of files from RAW to PSD (or TIFF) as the program prepares the RAW files for editing in CS3......it's the same as the status that appears when the originals are being imported into Lightroom.....but this doesn't happen appear! There is no conversion taking place the file name is still a NEF file one opened in CS3.
When I finish editing in CS3, only then do I get the option to save changes......and even then the message is - "Do you want to save changes to
****.NEF before closing?" It is after I click "Yes" to this option in CS3 that the file appears as a PSD File. So something strange is happening here.
Is there a way to reset everything factory defaults? Where do I find that option?
Thanks again for your help
SHARON GALLAGHER

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