Broken color management in Snow Leopard?

Hi,
I recently upgraded Leopard to Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro and I'm having trouble with my color profiles. I used an X-Rite i1 to calibrate my monitor (a Dell 30" 3007WFPHC) on Leopard and since Snow Leopard the colors are different. I have another computer connected to the same monitor (a 2nd generation MacBook Pro) which uses the exact same color profile and the colors are different between the two computers!
I tried re-calibrating my monitor several times and I never managed to get Snow Leopard to display colors the way it used to on Leopard (and every time, copying the profile between my two computers gives me different results.)
FWIW, my old profiles and the new profiles I've created were all using a gamma of 2.2, even on Leopard.
Is this a known issue and if so, is there a known workaround? The only "weird" thing about my setup is that I've upgraded the OS instead of doing a clean install.

Hello,
Just wanted to stop by and say I'm going through a similar issue:
I've calibrated my screen using an X-Rite i1 Display 2. I'm on a MacBook, circa early 2007 white model -- and though my photo colors look right and exact, system-wide menu and window selection overlays and some icons have a slight magenta tint. I'm using ColorMatch 3.6.2
Samples:
http://jimlafferty.com/magenta01.jpg
http://jimlafferty.com/magenta02.jpg
Check out the difference between the Transmit logo on Panic's site and the one in my dock:
http://jimlafferty.com/magenta03.jpg
When this has happened in the past, it was a matter of ensuring the calibration white point was set to "device native" -- and I ensured that it was. I've run the calibration twice, rebooted, ran it a third time. Still no luck.
Curious to find the solution. I have emailed X-Rite support, posted a comment on their blog -- a few days and no response.

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