Can't Calibrate My Display

I have an iMac G5, running 10.4.2 and have some printing issues....which call for me to calibrate my display. When I run the utility the proflie of my display cannot be found. A call to AppleCare says that my only recourse it to run an archive and reinstall...too drastic for me...is there any other solution?

I found that my problem at least was partially fixed by a simple reboot - it was to do with fast user switching erasing the display profile. There is some more information here http://www.latext.com/pm/comments/M15330_1_0C/. After a reboot I was able to recalibrate my display. In fact I came a across a very useful utility called SuperCal http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/ which is much more powerful and easier to use than the standard Apple calibration utility.

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Unfortunately, since I dont have applecare I had to spend 50 bucks on the phone with apple to figure this out. It's amazing how long it took them to actually pinpoint the problem. Hopefully if anyone gets that error in the future they'll find this post on google and save some bucks.

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I'm wondering if you would have any luck with resetting the PRAM? PRAM settings hold some of the display preferences I believe.
See: "Mac OS X: What's stored in PRAM"
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