Desaturated colors in book-pdf when reopened in PS

I'm putting together a book in iPhoto. I haven't done this since I upgraded to Tiger. Previous books have been fine in terms of color management. I'm always careful to keep tabs on which color space my pictures reside in. Figuring iPhoto was a consumer oriented application and since I was not sure if it honored embedded profiles or not I've put all my images into sRGB and doing all editing in Photoshop prior to importing into iPhoto. After assembling the book in iPhoto I've always printed to a pdf file which I've then re-opened in Photoshop to double check the colors against the original images. So far this has worked like a charm. Now after upgrading to Tiger and using iPhoto 5.0.4 there's trouble in paradise. For some reason when reopening the pdf file in Photoshop all the colors have much less saturation, although the file opens in the same sRGB colorspace as the originals. The sRGB profile is even embedded in the file. Everything seems fine but still the pictures lose saturation somwhere in the process, indicating a possible color space mismatch. The color balance seems pretty accurate but the saturation suffers. I wonder if anyone has come across this and found the solution?
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