Colors off after calibration

I have calibrated my monitor.
I have checked my color profile was saved to the correct location:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color
I have checked the default profile was set to this profile in:
Control Panel>Display>Setings>Advanced>Color Management
Colors were OK just after calibration.
When I powered on my PC the next day, all applications displayed colors OK (MS Office, pdf documents, Windows Picture viewer, etc.) EXCEPT Bridge, ACR, and Photoshop.
When I browse a folder in Bridge the thumbnails colors are OK (after purging the cache for this folder), but when I click a thumbnail the preview colors go off, and the next two adjacent thumbnails colors go off as well. If I open in PS colors are off as well.
What am I missing?
Thanks for your time & help,
Al
System: W XP SP2, CS3 Ext, ColorEdge CE210W, X-Rite DTP94B.

From your description of the two adjacent thumbnails changing colour it sounds like you have 'Convert To High Quality When Previewed' selected in Bridge Preferences>Thumbnails. The change of colour is due to Bridge generating the higher quality colour-managed thumbnails, first the one you selected and then the files immediately before and after, i.e., three thumbnails. These thumbnails are colour managed like Photoshop and so should be more accurate than the embedded ones created by your camera.
If you select 'Quick Thumbnails' Bridge will use the embedded (camera) thumbnails instead. Alternatively, selecting 'High Quality Thumbnails' will cause Bridge to create the thumbnails all at once when the folder is initially opened, and if there are many image files this may take some time - you can watch the HQ thumbnails being generated (the colour changing) as Bridge goes through the folder.
All the other applications you mentioned don't have colour management so the MS Office, some third-party pdf viewers (Adobe Reader however does) Windows Picture Viewer, etc., are actually showing incorrect colours, and Photoshop, Brdge and ACR showing them accurately, assuming you have the colour management settings set correctly.
It's probably an good idea to print some images off and see which thumbnails are more like the printed output.
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