Why is saturation reduced in my HDR results when comparing with the original images?

Yesterday I took several sets of RAW images with Panasonic LX3 to perform HDR.
However, the HDR results look less colorful than the original images, they became dreamy, blurry and unrealistic.
Is it because every set only has 3 images with different exposures?

You would probably get a better answer if you posted this in the Photoshop forum. This forum is for Lightroom, which is a quite different animal.
Hal

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Thanks for the quick reply. Please see my answers below:
I`m using a 15 " Macbook Pro with Retina and Adobe Elements Version 13.1 - German Version. I do not know, what eLive is - sorry.
My video card/graphics card is absolutely up to date - the Macbook I`m using is only a year old.
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to Rick:
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Hi Klaus,
Me thinks you jest my good man.....
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Only in iDVD do they become "corrupted".
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iPhoto isn't.
Photoshop isn't.
Capture One Pro isn't.
Adobe Bridge isn't.
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InDesign isn't.
Acrobat isn't.
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