Color managemnt icc profiles on external display

I have an asus laptop running windows 7. I currently have Photoshop cs5.1 extended as well as lightroom3. I just purchased an external monitor (wide Gamut Asus PA246q) I do most of my editing and corrections on this monitor. I use the spyder4pro for calibration software on both my external and laptop monitor. I know the laptop monitor is not a great editing monitor, but I calibrated it anyway. Realizing its limitations, I use the external monitor for all use in Photoshop. My laptop display is set up as my “main display” in windows 7 and with my Nvidia GeForce GTX 560m card.
Here is where I need some clarification. There is some conflicting info out there and this has me confused.
When running Photoshop cs5 on my external monitor, if I look under the color settings in my working color space, it lists the monitor RGB profile as my laptop display. Does this mean that my external monitor is using the laptop profile? Some say yes, others no… if this is the case is there any way to fix this other that making my external display my “primary display”? I haven’t noticed the external monitor to have any color shifts or inaccurate colors, but I want to be sure Photoshop is correctly choosing the external monitors profile and outputting accurate colors.. Some clarification would be nice..
As I mentioned earlier, I also use lightroom as well. This too is located on my external monitor this should not be an issue either correct? Any help would be great… thanks for taking your time to comment, it is greatly appreciated

The working space has no relation to your display profile.  Each display has a profile, and documents are converted to that profile when being drawn.

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