Color profile (one more....)

Hi, after quite a lot of reading, I am still struggling to have my web site photos look good on windows pc's. I use Aperture 1.5.6. I shoot Adobe1998 JPEGs with a Nikon D300 and I am exporting my web gallery in the sRGB colorspace but when I look at the exif data of the exported photos it seems they are not sRGB tagged nor embedded... And they look rather bad, like overexposed, except on my computer where they are WYSIWYG in Aperture, in Safari and in Camino! So, my question would be: isn't the export in sRGB supposed to embed the colorspace???
Thanks very much for your thoughts!

OT,  A very helpful answer above.  Thanks.
I would like to ask you one more question, not related to this thread:
I have been trying to sign in to my normal Apple ID but have been failing with the following error message:
We're sorry. Your account could not be created due to system issues.
Please contact Apple Support Communities with the information below to create your account.
I called Apple Care and they said that they could not help me.  I asked where I could go.  They said they did not know.  I tried that same Apple Care login ID on iTunes, and the Apple Store without a problem.  I then created a new login ID and have been able to sign in to the Apple Support Communities and hence this thread. I would like to be able to go back to my original account; however, I am being blocked as you can see.
How can I get help with my issue.
Thank you for your assisstance.
Regards,
Ken

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    When i print them thru I photo book or the PDF they look very dark and muddy...and would assume the same of the book printing online.
    any ideas on how to get the best print.
    Is there a color profile availabe from the online book printers or are we just winging it
    Also tried converting one page to S-RGB Still Muddy / dark thru i photo book
    and PDF Print. And just fine thru CS
    Any Ideas??
    Thank you

    I guess I am going to throw caution to the wind and see what happens.
    Only one way to find out, Right
    Though I did go back and lighten my images. Also
    Ran color synch utility, which fixed 11 corrupt color profiles.(none of the 11 profiles pertained to i photo)
    I guess I am afraid to use pref setter,, to set the key embed color profile.
    Confused as to what that means??? Does that mean that all my CS Adobe-RGB jpegs will keep their color profile???
    Also implanted one image as an SRGB vs the rest which will all be AdobeRGB
    Oddly my color management in CS is almost Flawless. Yet, get me out of CS and I am completely lost!!!! Complicated stuff
    Toad, I did want to pass on that AdobeRGB 1998 is a much more robust color profile then SRGB especially when it come to printing on Epson. It might be worth experimenting with and if you really want to get into it there is also
    Pro photo RGB which is Huge color space, but a beast to work with
    Here is a link
    http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml
    Will report back on my book
    TF

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