Why do the blues in my jpegs look purple?

I always shoot in the raw + jpeg format. But on my computer, the blues in the jpeg files always look purple while in the raw files they appear correctly. This happens even though I have used different cameras and my monitor has been calibrated. Can anyone help me understand why this happens and what I can do to improve upon it? I think it is something in the settings on my laptop because when I export the files, the colors appear normally.
Thanks
Lightroom 3.3RC
Windows Vista

Thanks for the responses. I am viewing the photos in Lightroom 3.3, where I see an appreciable purple shift in the woman's vest in the jpg version. So in an attempt to post the photos here, I exported both versionsas jpgs (jpg and raw) to a desktop file and viewed them using the Windows photo gallery. Still could see purple in the blues of the original jpeg photo. Then I uploaded here and in this posting, I don't see any purple cast to the blues in the vest or around the window. So I am using the same laptop to view the photos in my lightroom and windows applications and on this web page but they look different so I don't know enough to figure this out.
Thanks
Photos: 1. Original jpg...2. Original raw...

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