You and Guy are persistent Jack, I'll give you that :ROTFL:Cough... cough..... Marc, it sounds like something is wrong with your C1 installation if LR is significantly "faster" on the conversions...
I mean the over-all non-destructive work-flow and set of tools Lightroom provides ... but you knew that.
However, there are just some cases where C1 is the best choice .... which is why I keep it up to date on my machine.
-Marc