Bridge/PS CS3 display less saturated than other apps?

For a while I was sure I was seeing the dreaded "red color cast" on converting extended-gamut documents (ProPhoto, aRGB) to sRGB.  But a little experimentation has revealed that the problem is not in conversion, it's in how Bridge and PS display the images.
For an example of what I'm talking about, look at http://www.jhmg.net/misc/sRGB/colorShift.png   This is a screenshot with the same image file opened in both PS and WIndows picture viewer.  As you can see, the one on the right (Windows Picture Viewer) is slightly more saturated and has a significant red color cast compared to the same file displayed by PS.  My first thought was that I had accidentally set the advanced "desaturate colors" option in Color Settings, but that's not the case (see http://www.jhmg.net/misc/sRGB/colorSettings.png).
This color shift happens no matter what file format I use (PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF).  When the file displays in PS it looks like the one on the left, but in Windows or in a browser (Firefox, IE8) it has a red cast.  This happens on ALL images.
I have also checked to make sure the formats that support embedded profiles (PNG, JPEG) have the correct profiles.  For BMP and GIF, when I open the file in PS and assign sRGB, the image looks like the one on the left (less saturated).
Windows and PS/Bridge just don't render the colors the same way, and this is 100% reproducible.
Note: My monitor is calibrated, and I have a custom monitor profile installed at the OS level.  I can't find any way to specify a monitor profile in PS so I assume it will use whatever the OS provides.

J Maloney wrote:
If you ASSIGN your monitor profile to an image already CONVERTED to sRGB in PS, it looks like Windows viewer. This is because Windows viewer is not color managed
If I understand you, then any sRGB image displayed on my monitor in a non-color-managed app will be more saturated and redder than it should be because its pixel values are being interpreted as if they were in my monitor's custom wider-than-sRGB colorspace when in fact they're not.  When displayed in PS, Photoshop "knows" that they're in sRGB and my monitor isn't, and adjusts accordingly.  Right?
Here are some shots from the MS Color control panel applet comparing my monitor's gamut (color shape) to sRGB (white/gray shape):
From "below":
From the side:
From "above":
This explains why there's more red, but curiously I don't see the same effect in the green, which has an even wider gamut as shown below.  Maybe the green levels in this image aren't high enough to be shifted appreciably?

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