Calibration for 12" PB--has anyone tried Huey??

Hello! I'm getting more and more into photography with my Nikon D50, and I would like to improve the color calibration on my G4 12" PB's monitor. I have used SuperCal, which seems to be a slight improvement over other free software tools, but I'd really like to try one of the lower cost hardware based calibration tools, such as Huey by Pantone. Does anyone have any experience with using a Huey on a G4 12" PB? I'd really appreciate hearing how it worked for you. It is relatively cheap, but I hear that calibrating the TFT screens on the PowerBooks is rather difficult to get right. Any input? Thanks
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   1.25 GB RAM, 1.33 GHz, 12" PB

I am also considering something like Huey so very interested to hear experiences.
My new 12in LCD has worse colour than the 1GHz 12inch I've had for 2.5 years. The best profile for me is the default Colour LCD - have tried SuperCal which worked really well on old Powerbook as well as the Apple utility but I end up with a blue cast. Even using the built-in Colour LCD profile (which gives the most neutral grey on things like menu bars) the blue is too emerald and skin tones are off. It's very obvious on the 'aqua' blue desktops I'm used to and on highlights on drop-down menus. In fact using SuperCal's 'wedding' photo I can't get the skin tones to look right no matter where I move the cursor.
Apart from that the machine is perfect as was the old 12inch. Screen is brighter than the old one which I think is just because it's newer (I think the backlight is beginning to go with the old one but Is till have a few months Applecare left on it) but colour fidelity definitely worse.
I winder if a hardware calibration would fix it or is it actually impossible to get good colour on this screen?
Recently got a refurb 15inch and the screen colour on that is gorgeous. Side-by-side it's obvious the colours on the 12inch are not right and are 'muddier'.

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