Quality Issue Exporting RAW files in Lightroom 3

I have LR 3.6 and am experiencing quality degridation and tone alterations when exporting an edited RAW file to any folder in LR3 and then viewing the export in its new location in LR3. I am on a MAC and when I view the export in the file FINDER window, I see the image I expect to see in the LR viewer, all edits in tact!. But when viewed in lr it looks horrible! It is granular, the tone is altered and the color is over saturated. This seems to only happen with RAW files, exported to any format (Jpeg, Tiff, PSD, DNG etc) and/or color space (sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB). VERY FRUSTRATING.!!  Anyone found a solution to this problem?
Edited RAW Image :                                                                                                              Exported as JPG / sRGB:
Thanx!

Correct. I am importing the exported photo back into LR for viewing as part of my workflow. It moves from a "Work in progess Fiie" to a "Processed Image File". And this new import into LR looks incorrect? Keep in mind I am editing a RAW image and then converting it to JPEG, TIFF or other universal format. Usually JPEG. But this problem occurs regardless of the format I choose. However, viewing it in the MAC file folder it looks fine. That however does not help me if I want to set up a print job or slide show through Lightroom. Any thoughts....

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