Why does LR Develop Sharpening halo more than Photoshop's "Sharpen?"

Check out these two images:
Started in LR
Develop module
Sharpen = 100
View at 1:1
Took a screen shot:
http://www.reesweb.com/samples/sharpen/LR-Sharpening-100.jpg
Started in LR
Develop module
Sharpen = 0
Sent to edit in CS2/Photoshop
Applied Sharpen More
Applied Sharpen (second application was to reach about the same level of sharpness as LR's Sharpen = 100 for an equal comparison)
View at 100%
Took a screen shot:
http://www.reesweb.com/samples/sharpen/PS-ShMore-Sh.jpg
Why does LR's develop sharpen have so much more haloing? Seems like it should be at least as good as Photoshop's basic sharpen algorithms, right? Sure, LR doesn't have USM and maybe there's an argument (a marketing argument, that is) for keeping some high-end tools in PS, but the basic sharpening that is so important for RAW images should rock in LR. Am I missing something here?
For now I'm doing the PS round trip that many of us are doing just to apply the basic sharpening that RAW images need. A round trip would be OK for the occasional need of something more sophisticated in PS, but a round trip for every image is ridiculous.
/Still really dig LR!

Try this article by Bruce Fraser:
Out of Gamut: Thoughts on a Sharpening Workflow.
In it he outlines the concepts of a "sharpening workflow" where "capture sharpening" is done only to restore the loss of sharpness caused by digital capture (or scanning), "creative sharpening" to do image specific sharpening (or smoothing) and then "output sharpening" only at the final stage _AFTER_ you got the image in it's final size and resolution.
You can also delve deeper into the mysteries of sharpening in his book
Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2
The bottom line is that there really is no such thing as a "single sharpening" routine that will be correct for each image or output type. Thus the "sharpening workflow".
And the other big problem is the fact you can _NOT_ use a computer display to accurately sharpen images for output...a display is simply way too low a resolution device. You need to actually test the sharpening on the actual output and media you are using...
Sorry...wish this stuff was simpler/easier, but it's not :~(

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