Color and quality of photo changes once uploaded to online printing galleries (like Shutterfly).

The photos are RGB. Shutterfly can't figure out why and says there must be some error in the file when it is saved. Does anyone have a reason and/or solution? The portion of the photo on the left is edited, the one on the right is how the image looks once uploaded. It happens to every single photo.
I saved for web and uploaded again and the color looks a little better, but still not right. The one on the right is the correct original:
If photo looks blurry please click on it- not sure what is going on with that either!

The way I work is as follows (my screens are colour hardware calibrated):
- create the image
- convert the image with the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 colour profile, set to perceptual rendering
- export to web with sRGB profile embedded (optional)
The last step makes no difference in colour when you view the final results (with or without embedded colour profile) in either IE or Opera: they are identical. In FF and Chrome it does affect the colour quality, with the embedded profile version more correct looking.
And I would argue AGAINST turning on that option in Firefox, because you are isolating yourself from the rest of the world: at least then you will be aware of the slight colour change, while with the option turned on you cannot know.
I tend to disagree with this workflow - it means pretty much no-one except you will be able to see the image as intended, because no-one is going to activate that option in Firefox. And what about other browsers?
Of course you have no control over how everybody else's systems are set up, but that's not your problem, it's theirs.
Disagree. While you cannot control the setup of others, I am of the opinion we should try our best to provide the best quality, and therefore we should be aware of these issues while we work with and preview our imagery on the web. It feels to me as if this is an ostrich approach: hiding your head in the sand, and hoping the problem goes away.
To learn more about how specific browsers deal with color profiles and untagged images, check out:
http://cameratico.com/tools/web-browser-color-management-test/
As for ShutterFly: I just did some testing of my own, and it seems Shutterfly does not care one bit whether a jpg has an embedded sRGB profile or not. I uploaded both versions of mine (embedded and no sRGB profile), and checked the generated thumbnails with this:
Jeffrey's Exif viewer
It tells me the processed thumbnails have no profile embedded, so it becomes a crap shoot what the output (printed) quality will be like - you cannot trust the colours in their thumbnails/previews in a browser, because the OS and the browser will have to handle those untagged images.
It seems the best you can hope for with ShutterFly is to upload your images after you converted them with the sRGB profile in your image editor (Photoshop, Photoline, etc) and exporting the JPGs with an embedded sRGB profile.

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