Color settings issue

I am using CS3 under Vista Ultimate.
I'd be grateful for help with a couple of problems:
1. When I customise my color settings the customisarion is not sticking - that is, when I save the customisation, close the settings box and reopen it - the settings have returned to North America General Purpose 2. Similarly, if I load a customised setting it has always reverted to North American General Purpose 2 when I next look at the color settings.
2. For reasons I don't understand, recent photos have started to look over saturated with a blue shift when I Save (them) For The Web. My work is all for the internet and my workflow is all sRGB. That's why I am surprised by the colour problem. It's definitely something to do with the colour profile of the photo I am working on - when I take photos I have worked on a few weeks ago there is no colour shift when I Save for Web. I have converted the problem photo to sRGB but that has not solved the problem. I know I'm doing something dumb but I can't work out what it is or how to rescue the photo I have been working on.
Thanks for any help.
David

I spoke too soon.
The impermanent color settings have returned.
The reinstall did not solve the problem. Whenever I open the Colour Settings box the settings are all back to the North America General Purpose 2 profile.
I have contacted Adobe tech support who replied that it was not a technical problem but a usage problem (pilot error). At my request they had another look at the issue and have replied:
"Try to resett the preferences as you can see in the following doc.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb400950
if preferences did not solver your issue, create a new admin account and try to recreate the problem in the new admin account."
I have tried resetting the preferences a number of times and that did not work. I will create a new admin account as suggested but I am not hopeful that this will solve the problem.

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I recently installed Photoshop 7 on my PC and when I open the program the default color settings appear all yellow and green toned and not true RGB. I have tried messing with the settings but I cannot seem to solve the problem. It would be easier if I could show the screen shot of what I am talking about. Hopefully someone out there has experienced the same issues. Please help.
By the way I work for a large fortune 500 company and the software is installed through a server which allocates the licenses. I dont know if there may be a bug in the program but maybe that has something to do with it.
Any help would be great.

Your display profile is bad - replace it.
This is a common problem when people install the first color managed application (most applications don't use the display profile, so it can be bad and you won't notice).
(and there is no "true RGB" - every display's RGB is different)

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