Skin tones turn putty after opening in ACDSee & Picasa

After I export my pictures from Lightroom and save to a folder, I have noticed that skin tones that look wonderful in Lightroom look dreadful in ACDSee and Picasa. They are a dull putty. Actually some landscapes are much darker there too than they are in Lightroom.
Any idea what is causing this? I hate to send them out to WHCC for printing because I don't know which picture will come back--the lovely one that Lightroom shows or the dreadful one I see in ACDSee. For what it's worth, before I got Lightroom, I never had this problem with ACDSee before (although I did just upgrade to ACDSee 10). Thanks for any help.
Elise

Jeff, I believe you are narrowing the problem down. I was sure I was saving from Lightroom in sRGB, but I went and checked for sure. I was indeed, but your post got me thinking. All of the images that have done this have been first brought into LR and then moved over into PSE4 for additional work. I went and checked the color profile for PSE4 and sure enough, it's Pro Photo RGB. It appears that is the ONLY option one has in saving from PSE.
However, the question now is why is this suddenly happening? I've been using PSE4 for years, and ACDSeehas always been exactly the same in viewing as PSE. The only thing I can think of is that I upgraded to ACDSee 10--but why the upgrade should cause problems when the older version didn't is confusing to say the least. I think a call to ACDSee is in order.
Thank you for helping me narrow this down.

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