Color Settings driving me crazy! Gray is pink.

Why, why, why is Photoshop insisting on doing strange things even though I've set everything I can possibly think of to "off"!?
I DO NOT want to color manage anything. I don't care about what it look likes when it goes to print, I only want my gray to be gray, not pink! And I don't mean that my monitor displays r=g=b like pink, I mean the RGB for masks, layer effects etc actually have values like R=125, G=120, B=111!
If I pick RGB(100, 100, 100) and use the pen (not even the brush) to draw a line in a mask, then when I eyedrop it, it reads RGB(105,100, 92).
I haven't dared even thinking about enabling color management. Who knows what would happen? :-)
Any suggestions what I should do to keep from going bananas?
My settings:
RGB: Monitor RGB - Lenovo Thinkpad lcd monitor
CMYK: US web coated (swop) v2
Gray: dot gain 20%
Spot: dot gain 20%
[ ] ask when opening
Color management policies:
RGB: off
CMYK: off
Gray: off
Conversion options:
Engine: Adobe (ace)
Intent: relative colometric
[x] use blackpoint
[x] use dither
Robert

You can't turn off color management in Photoshop, so you have to learn to live with it. Calibrate and profile your display, make sure Windoze knows which ICC profile to use (so Photoshop knows) and then in PS set your color settings to whatever RGB and CMYK color spaces you want to use.
This should make your color much better both in and out of PS.

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