Black thumbnails

I recently worked on a photo in PSE6 for mac, saved it as a .psd to the desktop, then dragged it to iphoto 7.1.5. Rather than seeing the usual full color thumbnail, I see an almost black thumbnail-more like a VERY underexposed photo as there is a tiny bit of blue color. When I open the image in iphoto, it is still nearly black, but when I right click to "edit in external editor", it will open normally in PSE. All my other thumbnails are fine.
I don't know if my problem is with iphoto or PSE, but I'm sure I have some setting wrong. The current settings are:
mode: RGB color
convert color profile: apply sRGB profile
color settings: allow me to choose
in the "save as" box I checked "embed color profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1"
BTW, in iphoto, I tried to rebuild the library and repair the permissions.
Can anyone help? I had no luck with the Apple folks.

Make sure the color profiles are consistent in both iPhoto and Elements.
Images are usually color managed on the Mac but make sure when saving in Elements that the profile is embedded e.g.sRGB, aRGB, ProPhotoRGB etc.
It also helps to use Elements as the nominated external editor in the iPhoto settings.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb403605.html#main_Use_RAW_format_from_iPhoto_to_an_external_ image_editor_such_as_Photoshop_Elements_

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