Calibrating 15" MBP LCD and a 22" Gateway LCD correctly?

No matter how hard i've tried there is no way i can calibrate the LCD on my MBP and the 22" gateway LCD to look the same. I want to have the exact same color profiles but if i select for example the same adobe color profile on my MBP and 22" Gateway, even tho the profiles are the same the differences are quite noticeable.
How can i calibrate the LCD on my MBP and 22" gateway to be the same?

After color calibration with the huey, they will be not be exact, but as close as they can be, which is to say, they will be MUCH closer than they are now. I agree with you that the color gamut (the spread of colors possible) is better on the Gateway than it is on the laptop, but I can only tell you I don't think you'll be disappointed if you get the huey (Colorvision Spyder probably works just as good, but I've never used it). The Gateway being better shouldn't be a surprise, given the laptop monitor has other things than just color accuracy to be concerned about (e.g. text crispness, heat, longevity in a mobile setting, compressed resolution rendering).
One thing I noticed with both monitors once they were calibrated, is the incredible amount of blue I had going on with both. After calibrating, you can go back to color settings before calibrating, and click on before/after buttons. The difference is amazing. The color calibrator renders something like 25 colors from the Greytag MacBeth color chart (same company as the one that makes the Huey) and then matches it to a database, to determine how far your monitor's color settings are from the standard, then adjusts them so they match the Pantone standard colors. Nice, quick, effective.
The two monitors will also likely be much closer to input (e.g. from your camera) and output (to your printer) once you get it squared away and do a little tweaking of camera and printer (otherwise you'd need to create a profile for each of those too.

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