Color in photoshop different then in aperture

i had to notice that raw files adjusted in aperture always look different in photoshop...
i work in a completely colormanaged environment and i really don't have any problems printing, but when i export files and open them in PS, there is a definite shift in color...
i called apple about this and the answer was that aperture handles and displays color differently then PS does....even with the same colorprofile/space....which does not make a lot of sense to me and i really feel that this wasn't so pronounced a couple of months ago....now my adjustments (especially for skintones) in aperture are almost useless for PS....
during my discussion with the apple tech i also found out that the "edit with PS" option always attaches adobe RGB as the profile, regardless of the setting in the prefs....to work in any other colorspace, one has to export and then manually open in PS....strange but not really a big problem, as long as one knows about it....
what really worries me is the answer i got when i said that the files look very different in aperture and PS...that the 2 apps read and interpret color differently....isn't that what colorsync is all about? or at least should be?
i am looking at my files in aperture using the "onscreen proofing" option set to the colorspace i work in....i have tried to export the same file in different spaces, all with the same result...a visible difference in PS (regardless of the PS working profile or PS soft proofing)....
i am wondering if there is a way to corrupt my colorengine? with several software updates since 10.5 and this seems to get worse? any idea anyone? i keep a clean system and maintain it frequently (and not obsessively) and everything else works great....any input welcome...

I think using the previews (as in quick preview mode) yields results that lie. When making all adjustments, I'm looking at the RAW file.
I think some clarification is needed here for both of you to determine what is going on.
1. Quick Preview Mode uses a jpeg preview that is embedded by the camera within the raw file. It's not "lying". It's just giving you the camera's version of things. Just like Aperture, ACR, DPP, Nikon Capture NX each have different color engines and will give different renderings of the same raw file - the same is happening here. The color and tone of Aperture's Quick Preview Mode is not going to match Aperture's rendering, it will only match the rendering of the OEM software that came with your camera. Quick Preview mode is no different than using something like Photo Mechanic.
2. PSSSSS - your color should be matching between Aperture and a file exported into Photoshop but there are a many variables at play here and you need to pin them down to figure out what is going on.
-I assume you are working on a calibrated display (one calibrated with a hardware device like an Xrite Display or Eye-one or similar). That's the only way to know that what you are seeing is accurate in either program.
-For Aperture, make sure you are not in Quick Preview Mode and you do not have soft-proofing turned on.
-For Photoshop, make sure you do not have "Proof Setup" turned on and in your Color Settings make sure that it is set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles".
-With all three of the above done your color should match. If it does not there another possible issue I'm aware of and that is that Aperture is not compatible with certain kinds of display profiles. This goes back to 2006 and I don't know if it has been corrected. What I found then is that Aperture did not display images correctly if the display/monitor profile uses a "Large (LUT)" setting.
Here's a thread going over that issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=469271&tstart=0
I think certain screen calibration pucks like the Huey do use the "Large (LUT)" setting but do not let you know that or give you any other options.
-One last possible issue, PSSSSS, is that your post lists a MacBook Pro as your computer. Are you using an external display? If not there could be an issue in MBP screen and/or its profile. How so? I've found that MBP screen, while the best to date, is still wanting. It can show images as noisy when they are not and it can show images as slightly posterized when they are not. I don't know if this affect is across the board or only within certain programs. For example, when I shoot tethered, my Canon 1DsM3 tethering to my MBP and using Canon's DPP software. The previews in the DPP can look noisy and a touch posterized, as I just mentioned, but the same files opened on my desktop Mac Pro/Apple Cinema Display look just fine.
-In this thread, http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7518140#7518140 , you mention "Show Master Image" or using the loupe shows a color shift in the image. I'm not seeing that at all on my system. If I remember correctly, this was part of the problem I saw when I found the display profile to be incompatible with Aperture (again, mentioned above).
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