Bridge color & Photoshop color is wrong after calibration

Hi guys...
I just can't figure this out...
Here is what happen...
I am using iMac and CS3. I have been using Eye1Display2 to calibrate the iMac.
I have been doing that for a few years and there is no problem at all until about recently (2 weeks now). After I have calibrated the iMac, the color in Bridge and Photoshop is very wrong... all looks green after calibration (only on Adobe software and everything else looks ok). I try re-calibrate again for 5 times and restart the mac before I redo it and the result still the same.
So any idea?
Bad profile? spoilt calibrator?
Regards,
Hart

* At the time this release note was written, the issue was not fully understood. As it happens, the issue with version 4 profiles was caused by a bug in ColorSync in the initial release of Snow Leopard. Apple responded quickly to the issue which was addressed in the OSX 10.6.2 update. i1Match does indeed build good version 4 ICC profiles on OSX 10.6.2 and 10.6.3, with preferences set to LUT (large) or matrix (small).
The issue was not an X Rite issue. If the system was making good profiles before and then stopped, it could be a series of bad profiles or something as simple as a bad USB cable.The sensor could be toast in the puck. At any rate, OP should be able to find an old profile and make it current. That might tell them whether or not it's a hardware issue or a software glitch. I have the i1 pro, which has a diagnostic program. i1 display does too?
Or could it be something as simple as VIEW has switched Softproof? What were you doing in Bridge or PS that you might have changed a setting?

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