Work flow to get Oly colors from RAW

Hello everyone.  I am new to Olympus and like many others picked up the XZ-1 when Amazon had the big $200 sale.  I actually sent back a E-PM1 kit I had after getting the XZ-1 as I didnt plan on buying more lenses anytime soon and the kit left a little to be desired at times.

Any way, I normally shoot RAW+jpeg at all times.  I didnt like the noise smearing with jpeg shots and I like what I can tweak with the RAW files.  That being said I am still pretty new to tweaking!  I have LR 3.6 and havent been using it long but so far I love what it can do.  I know I am just barely scratching the surface of what it could actually do but I am happy with using the basics of noise reduction, exp comp, spot removal, etc.

Now what I do love about Oly jpegs are the colors.  They do live up to their reputation.  When shooting RAW and using LR I lose that.  Is there an easy way to get the colors back in LR from the RAW files?  I do have OV2 but I really do not like using it.  The interface is very slow and clunky with long delays from making adjustments to what is being shown on the screen.  I have a pretty new PC running Win 7 64, Sandy Bridge Core i5, 8GB RAM, and a Radeon 6630M card.  Even with my video card settings maxed out the OV2 program is still maddeningly slow vs. LR or even something simpler like Picasa.

My thoughts if I could get OV2 working better would be to batch process all RAW files or jpegs there, make sure NR was Off and then output everything as a jpeg or tiff.  Then I can use LR to open those and tweak there.  That seems a little cumbersome and is an extra step I would prefer to avoid if possible.

Any suggestions or anything I am missing?