RAW files very smoothed - not caused by noise reduction

Hi there.  My Adobe RAW-converting software has just developed a really odd problem.  I was editing files and all of a sudden all the RAW files have some kind of smoothing effect.  It's like the noise reduction is up full (it's at the default settings), but even worse.  This happens in both ACR and Lightroom.
I can see the blurring effect in Lightroom and ACR if I zoom in to 100%, but not otherwise. I trashed the preferences for Photoshop and ACR and I also re-downloaded Camera Raw 5.6 and reinstalled it. Nothing seems to help. I did not change any settings for this to happen; it just happened sponteneously as I was editing.  Any ideas?  Thanks!

By the way, here are two screen shots showing what the file looks like at full size in LR, followed by how it looks when opened into Photoshop.

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