Calibrating mess

Hi,
I was trying to explore the calibrate option in Displays. I need to reset my display to default values.
How do I do that? My monitor seems too bright. When I try to adjust the brightness using my apple keyboard nothing happens. I have the new apple wired keyboard.
I hae a 19" LCD LG monitor.
+L194WT:+
++Resolution: 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz++
++Depth: 32-bit Color++
++Core Image: Hardware Accelerated++
++Main Display: Yes++
++Mirror: Off++
++Online: Yes++
++Quartz Extreme: Supported++
++Rotation: Supported++

To reset your display - basically return to the non-calibrated set up - simply open the Displays preference pane, select the Color tab and then click on the Display Profile that lists the monitor's name but doesn't include the word 'Calibrated'. This assumes you used the default name when you saved the profile - if you renamed it to be the same as the original profile, the original default settings will have been overwritten.
If you did, in fact, overwrite your default display profile in the Color tab, then go to the Finder's 'Find' command (in the Finder's File menu), and search for 'windowserver' (no quote marks. Delete all the files it finds (there should be 2 or 3, including one that has a number of alphanumeric characters) and then reboot. You should then have the default settings again in the Displays preferences.
The brightness controls on the keyboard do not work with systems such as the mini and external monitors.

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