Book printed to bright/light

Hi,
when I got my first Aperture book, I was shocked by the bad quality: all images where printed too bright/light. I returned the book to Apple together with some JPEG exports (to iPhoto support) and they agree with me and will refund my money.
iPhoto support also suggested to try again but I'm afraid the same will happen again. The album was compiled and uploaded with 1.1.0 and I'm on 1.1.1 now.
Does anyone have a similar quality issue and when you submitted it again, was it better?
Does anyone know an alternative good (JPEG based) album print service which will deliver pro-quality?
rgrds rgr

Just did my first Aperture book and yes the printing is definitely lighter than the screen images appear.
My guess is that it would be wise to create a display profile that matches the assumedly calibrated printed output so that I can achieve a closer match in future.
Colors all seemed about right. Cover image is peeling up right off the bat.

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