Color Issues after compressing

I'm not really sure where the problem lies here. It might even be my system as it makes no sense. But here it is:
http://www.gshutter.com/videos/images/ColorIssue.png
The image on the left is being viewed on a website, the one on the right is being viewed through QT with the FinalCut plugin turned on for color. I've noticed small differences before but this one is huge. The shirt on the left is absolutely purple on my system. The one on the right is perfectly the color its suppose to be.
I'm using a calibrated monitor to do everything, but even opening the image in QT with the FCP Color box unchecked results in the purple shirt, previewing with the quick preview of Mac Leopard also results in a purple shirt.
I Color corrected in Color and it looked perfect there, FCP views it perfectly, QT views it perfectly as long as I turn on FCP Box. So what gives? I don't want to spend all my time doing color correcting if my final product is not going to be viewed correctly even on the same computer that I did the correcting on.
I fully understand things being different on different computers, but we're talking the same system here.
Any ideas?
glenn

No, I'm saying I'm viewing everything on my MBP at the moment. I'm asking why the video looks completely different on the same screen. When viewing on other peoples computers as well as the other 2 computers I have here, things are blue, not completely the blue on my screen obviously but blue. none are purple. But on my system if I view through the quick preview, or view in the browser window they are clearly purple and not blue.
The monitor I'm talking about being calibrated is the monitor on the MBP.
Thanks,
glenn

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