PSD to bright in Lightroom 3

With the new LR3 I've run across a weird problem: if I work with an image in LR and I need to just adjust it a bit in PS CS5 I open it up as a smart object and do my retouching. I save... and the PSD and DNG is stacked. This workflow has worked fine with LR2 but in LR3 the PSD looks perfects in PS but in LR3 it's to bright. Even when I export, converting to AdobeRGB it's still to bright. If I open it up in PS again it looks fine. It's just in Lightroom it looks and exports wrong.
I have pretty good knowledge in Color Spaces and I make sure I work in 16bit ProPhoto RGB in both Lightroom and PS. I don't believe this is a problem with the color space since I've had the same workflow in LR2 with the same settings.
Any ideas?

Reset your default develop settings for PSD files to original settings. The settings have been changed.
In Develop module open a PSD, go to Develop>Set default settings.... and choose Restore Default Adobe Settings.
This should set everything to zero and the photo will appear correct. Same thing for Tiff, raw and jpg files.
May I suggest that you use tiff instead of PSD. Tiff files can be read by many more programs and you can include layers just like PSD.
PSD is really only useable in Adobe products.
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