Quicktime h.264 still all washed out...

I know there are countless threads about gamma / unsaturated color issues when exporting to using h.264... in fact I think I have read all of them, which are all at least a year + old... this is still a problem: (Obviously top is good)
So does anyone have a REAL answer for this bug. Someone did post a supposed workaround, dealing with color profile... but this does not work.
BTW... it plays fine embedded in Firefox.
24" iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9) Core 2 duo - 2.33 - 2gb ram

I too have been plagued by this H264 problem for the past 2 years it seems.
I have a suspicion that if we polled the users experiencing this effect that
it would result they all use custom or modified Display Profiles in the Display System Preferences.
My temporary (and somewhat silly workaround) has been to change my display profile to the
standard "Cinema HD Display" instead of my user-created "Cinema HD Display Calibrated" profile.
It does alter the gamma of my display to a unpleasing value, but after changing it, the H264 export
works beautifully. No gamma shift at all.
I have read all the suggestions on trying the quicktime "filter then colorsync" export and always got unsatisfactory results. My silly workaround always produces the best results. I just have to change the dang setting back after I export so my eye dont burn out of my skull.

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