Color profile reset after screensaver

Running Leopard 10.5.1. Dual screen setup with my external monitor having configured as a custom color profile to compensate for a little bit of gamma. Strange thing that always when the screen saver comes on, and I move the mouse so that the screen comes back, the colors look blueish. When activating the screen options and moving to the color profile tab, the screen reverts to the correct settings again. I have to do this every time the screen comes out of the screensaver.

I run Parallels on an external HP monitor and OS X on the MBP screen. It's intermittent for me but sometimes I get a weird blue tint on the MBP screen coming out of screensaver. Opening screen prefs knocks it back to normal.
I tried this:
http://installingcats.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/fix-blue-tint-wake-from-screensav er-mac-macbook/
It seemed to work. It's been a few weeks since the last 'blue shift'.

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