Dell 2408WFP at mac mini over hdmi

I have an new mac mini server, where I try to connect an Dell 2408WFP to over hdmi.
Besides the problems with shadows around the letters in written text and menus, which I solved by setting the resolution to 1600x1000, I have a big color problem, which I can't solve by any calabrating procedure. Green and blue colors are dominating, and all brown to red colors are reduced or missing. For example the Icon of the addressbook appears not in this standard beige color but in green. As you can imagine, this is the absolute kill for any work on images. Since the Dell monitor is a good standard one, which I never had any problems with before, there must be a problem with hdmi ore even worse with the graphics of the mac mini.
Has anybody similar experiences and found a solution. I bought the hdmi cable expecting to have the best connection possible then, and to have only one cable between the mac mini and the monitor. Are there any limitations in the hdmi-standard concerning resolution and color management? I didn't test any dvi cable yet, since I am still hoping to find a solution for this problem.

I have exactly the same issues as you, ie the lack of clear / sharp text and the colour management problem. Did you get anywhere with this?
I was using this Dell display with Windows 7 and had none of these problems. I calibrated the display using a semi-professional calibration utility (i1Profiler / Eye-one Match) and the results under Windows were great. But with the Mac Mini I find that many colours lack saturation. Yellows are very faint, and reds look more like a brown-orange. I tried replacing the HDMI cable with a DVI cable and the Mac HDMI -> DVI converter but I don't see any improvement.
Interestingly I find that the text looks best at the monitor's native resolution, ie 1920 x 1200 but it's still nowhere as crisp as text is under Windows.
For me the colour management issue is the biggest problem. I do lots of underwater photography and I just wouldn't dare work on any of my photos with the display as it is.
The profile I find works the best is sRGB IEC61966-2.1 but it's way off being natural / correct.
I specifically bought the Dell display as it has variable height and fits neatly in the corner off my office where the height is limited, I don't have room for a 27" thunderbolt display even if I could find the funds (~$1600 in the UK!)
I'm running 10.7.2 (Lion) in case it makes a difference.

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