Colour Cast in Adobe products

Hi all.
I am sure someone out there can help me. I have installed CS, CS2 and now LR2.3, and every time I install an Adobe product, I struggle against reddish or orangish colour casts in my images. The same images opened in a variety of other progams do not show this colour cast.
The following link shows an NEF image converted to greyscale in LR 2.3. If I keep it as a colour image and completely desaturate it, it has the same colour.
Can anyone explain the colour cast, and how to ger rid of it. If you look at the thumbnails, you will see ther predominately warm cast they all have.
Here is the link:
http://www.jomp-photographics.com/colour_cast.jpg
Thanks in advance.
John

It may have been your Corel software rather than a wrong monitor profile from the manufacturer that caused your issue, Johnny. I had a similar problem when LR1 came out and it was caused by a color management profile that loaded into Windows at bootup that I had completely forgotten was installed when I first installed Corel software, and it messed LR's color up.
But I found the software eyeball calibration programs including PS Gamma to be inadequate. I mean, try it, sure, but if your results are still disappointing, especially when you try to match what you see on your monitor to what you get from a printer, do yourself a favor and get a hardware calibrator. You can spend hundreds of dollars for them, and I'm sure in many cases the expensive ones are worth every penny, just as you can justify expensive monitors and printers too for critical photo work, but my budget is much more modest. Still I found the hardware Spyder2 Express (currently $62 on amazon) color and gamma monitor calibrator to be an excellent value and
way more effective matching monitor to printer output in Lighhtroom than the do-it-yourself free online and built-in software calibrators. I saved more in photo ink and paper in not having to redo print jobs with different settings to get printed photos to look right than I spent for the Spyder2.
Not everybody likes them, as you'll see in Amazon reviews. You have to read S2E's readme file and follow the directions to the letter, with absolutely no shortcuts, to get good results with these, including being careful before calibrating to restore monitor defaults and set a 6500K color temperature, and have the monitor warmed up for one hour and the colorimeter warmed up for five minutes, and the room darkened with no light hitting the monitor as you calibrate; don't just try to use a hardware calibrator out of the box or follow a quick-and-dirty plug-and-pray approach as it would seem you could do, or they will disappoint, too, in my experience. Because I have a consumer-priced LCD monitor, and they are
not good on color and gamma accuracy as a rule, I do still sometimes have to make minor adjustments to monitor settings after calibrating or minor changes to printer settings to match print to monitor, but it's much closer using hardware calibration than not.

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