CS4 Color Picker?

I am having a problem getting Adobe color picker to produce accurate colors. For example, if I dial in RBG value 49, 49, 49 ( HEX: 31 31 31), I get a dark color swatch that is RBG value 37, 37, 37 (Hex: 25 25 25) according to my MAC Digital Color Meter. I tried the CS4 Apple Color picker and it seems to produce accurate colors. Is this a bug in CS4 or is it an issue with my settings in CS4?

The "digital color meter" reads values directly from the display -- it gets values after display correction has been applied.
Chris

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http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2011/07/lion-tamers.html
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