Color changing when Saving Photo -

We sell coins on our website - So the color makes all the difference in the world to weather you want to buy the coin or not. We use a Nikon to take the pics - Pics come out great, the colors looks like actual coin when viewing in photoshop and in the XP viewer and when we ever have to print the pic. Here's the problem, when we go to save for web its changes the color drastically. A penny that once had a red tone to it now has a brown tone. I've read all over the place for ways to fix it and we've tried them all. Changing the monitor color profile, converting the profile, etc. I understand that everyone's monitors are different and everyone is gonna see it differently anyways, but it would be nice if the pic would like the same on our computer vs the website. It seems like when we first starting do this several yrs ago we didnt have this problem. Has things changed within the program and/or the web to have made these changes happen? Is this something we are gonna have to deal with? We dont have the time to adjust every single picture to make sure the save to web looks right.
ANY SUGGESTION....

The typical 'save for web' function removes any color profile info. You can save an ICC profile with the image in 'save for web' but only a few browsers (Safari and optionally in Firefox) will care about it. Most folks view images without color management as sRGB.
This means that you probably need to be working on your images in sRGB. It seems you have a different profile right now.
>It seems like when we first starting do this several yrs ago we didnt have this problem.
That is because we were not messing with color management then.

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Sorry that the Color Setting idea didn't do the trick. Since the occurrence is separate, that is, seeing one color view using Elements and a different color view using email view. I still suspect this area.
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