Colors look saturated when viewing pictures in iPhoto 6

When looking at photos in iPhoto 6 the colors looks very saturated. For example faces look very red instead of a more natural skin tone. The pictures look different in iPhoto to how they look in other applications (including Preview). In these other applications the photos look as they used to in iPhoto 5 (i.e. much more natural colors).
If I tick the Add ColorSync Profile checkbox in the preferences and then duplicate a picture, then the resulting picture looks just as horrible in other applications (e.g. Preview) as well. It is as if iPhoto has then added this horrible color profile to the photo itself so that all applications then suffer the horrible colors!
Any help / suggestions would be much appreciated.

After some more investigation (with the help of Sam who was having a similar problem in a different thread) we seem to have narrowed down the problem down to ColorSync profiles. If a picture has one its color does not look different in iPhoto and if it doesn't have one, the color is affected.
If I load up an image in Photoshop elements I get different results depending on what settings I choose for the color settings. If I choose no color management then the picture looks the same as Preview (and how it used to look in iPhoto 5). If I choose either of the other settings then the picture looks different - still not the same as iPhoto 6, but more saturated anyway.
I suppose the only workaround is to set a ColorSync profile for all my photos and choose one that I am more happy with. i.e. one that changes the picture the least.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that we (Sam and I) have Photoshop Elements installed. The reason I say this is that the color profile that iPhoto chooses when you tick Add ColorSync Profile in the preferences is Adobe RGB (1998). Pictures imported with this preference enabled, look the horrible color even in Preview. So I assume that it is this profile that iPhoto is applying on the fly to all photos you view if they do not have an explicit profile set. If you look for the Adobe RGB (1998) profile in Spotlight you only find it in an Adobe directory which I assume you wouldn't have if you had not installed Elements.

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