Cs image color problem

this just started to happen last night
whenever i open up an image in photoshop, or when i print screen and copy the image into photoshop, the image appears darker in photoshop than it does in any other program.
when i use that view option to view in "monitor rgb" it shows the correct color, but that doesn't do anything more than SHOW it in that color. whenever you add a new layer of the image, it goes back to the darker color. when you save it, the image is still darker.
if that above statement confuses you, i'll try and explain.
last night i made a graphic and saved it. after i discovered the "monitor rgb" thing, i re-did the graphic, using monitor rgb on each layer, and when i saved it, it was still the dark color as before. i was working with jpg photos in these graphics, so i know that the original image is lighter than what it appeared in ps.
someone said it was color correction. i've used cs for about a year, and i've never had this problem before. is it color correction? is there a way to turn it off? i've already deleted and reinstalled cs twice, and it's still doing it.

I am stepping in here very tentatively, like standing between a couple of loose alsatians and a child with a half eaten pie in their yard...
  Here is a smiley so you don't think we are all so sarcastic here.
Your question is lacking in technical and procedural information and the guys are suggesting that your question is like saying " I have made many nice cakes without recipes and now I have made one that tastes bad - what happened?"
Without colour management, you will strike such problems quite easily, so my forum compatriots are making a good (albeit sarcastic) suggestion to read up on it.
Reinstalling the application is obviously not helping return the defaults to whatever state you had in the beginning, possibly because reinstalling does not delete the old prefs if I recall correctly.
Bottom line is; if you were not in a correct environment to start with, it is a bit hard to go back there...  you would be better off getting your head around the correct workflow so you know where you are.
I just read a post by lou dina offering advice on setting up on his website http://www.dinagraphics.com/color_management.php and I can offer a printer's point of view and layman's overview on my site:  http://www.goannaprint.com.au/colourmanprimer2010.html  where I have explained it in very general terms.
And colour management rule no 1 is "you can't turn it off" - even if you see a button that says "turn off colour management"!

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