Certain psd images are saving darker as jpegs

I use Photoshop CS3.
Certain psd images are turning out darker after I save them as jpegs. The shadows are far more predominant and the images are significantly darkened. This only happens with photographs that I have edited over the past two or three days. All photographs that I have edited four days ago or more save exactly as they appear in photoshop. There is no darkening whatsoever. I can't figure out what is causing this recent batch of photographs to save differently.
Both batches are RGB 8 bits, Color Mode 3, with an ICC profile of sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
Thanks.

Is your display profiled and calibrated, and if so, what software/hardware did you do this with?
What version of Windows are you running?
It sounds as though your Windows Photo Viewer may not properly be using the document and monitor profiles to do color-management.
Windows Photo Viewer has been color-managed since at least as far back as XP SP3, but I'm wondering if your monitor profile just isn't being interpreted correctly.  Perhaps it's in a format your OS software can't handle.
-Noel

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