Color Change when saving from CS4

I have an image from which I wish to make a selection and save as a .png or .gif file on transparent background to use in a collage. When I re-save the image from CS4, the color is changed quite drastically (face from color to ash!). The image was shot with a P&S as .jpg but opens in PS first in the cameraRaw dialogue for unknown reasons:
http://www.gobeck.ca/screenshots/cameraRAW.jpg
When I save it from CS4:
http://www.gobeck.ca/screenshots/color_rendition.jpg
Result form the selection:
http://www.gobeck.ca/screenshots/color_change.jpg
How do I resolve this?
Art

For disabling JPEG in ACR go to EDIT => Preferences => Camera Raw and switch it to "Disable JPEG Support" at the bottom in JPEG and TIFF handling.
It seems that you apply the ProPhoto colorspace via ACR.
So the result can have two reasons: either the JPEG was saved untagged (converted to ProPhoto but without embedded colorspace) or it was tagged and saved with an embedded profile, but the other applications are non- or wrong colormanaged. Both will result in a desaturated image like it shows up to the right:
How the appear in a non-colormanaged browser, see the names:
Also the # in the image name (3rd image) indicates that your color settings (workspace settings) in PS are different from the colorspace of the image.
Either apply sRGB when you go through ACR or disable the open JPEG with ACR feature as desribed above, which should preserve the original colorspace.

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