White balance information from camera lost?

I don't know what's up with Lightroom and reading the white balance data stored in the .nef files from my camera. Quite frankly it seems that Lightroom eighter has some "interpretation" of Nikon's colors, or that it simply disregard all white balance info.
Is this problem .nef (Nikon)-specific, or does this whitebalance/color-interpretation problem appear with all raw formats?
//Svein

I calibrate against a CBL. As for "how far off", that depends on what calibration I've gotten, but it seems that Lightroom has a predefined "as shot" that is nowhere near the calibration done in-cam. I have verified this against what NX and Bibble gets, and for direct 60degree-north sunlight, Lightroom's interpretation is visibly blue-ish.
//Svein

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