QuickTime and color profiles

Hi - I calibrate my monitor using the Spyder 2 suite, and all of my color aware software seems to get along and display color quite nicely (PhotoShop, Lightroom, iMatch), and non color aware software does great with sRGB images (ie, image viewer), the one odd ball is QT. QT seems to be using an incorrect profile, when I playback any content, be it downloaded content (trailers), color or non color managed images, the color is clearly way off. If I export my frames, then open them in PhotoShop, they come in looking correctly, and have no profile associated with them, same if I export to another format (*.avi) it looks great. Is QT color aware, can I force it to use another profile?
Thanks for any help

I have a large avi file that I wanted to import into Quicktime (same problem on MAC -10.4+, qt7 or Windows XP). When I do that the colors are WAY off. Exporting to DV on Windows, then importing into quicktime is ok. But the windows movie maker wants to alter the aspect ration.
Is this the same color problem you're having?

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