Dim Screen and Over saturation Mac Pro 1,1 - 10.6.5

Hi I have read a bunch about this issue but cant seem to find a resolution. I recently upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6. I am currently running 10.6.5 and I am experiencing a weird issue with my display. It appears much darker and the colors are over saturated.
I have heard that this is because the apple changed the gamma from 1.8 to 2.0 (or 2.2... i forget) anyway. The screen looks awful. I have tried other profiles, recalibration, etc... with no luck. However while the computer is on if I simply pull the dvi connection out of the machine and put it back in it reverts to a traditional gamma, saturation and overall appearance of what the screen looked like in 10.5.
Now although I think it is really absurd that I need to do this I dont care that much EXCEPT this solution does NOT work with the secondary display port. I will pull the dvi out and plug it back in and the secondary screen is still very dark and saturated. I noticed it first in 10.6.4 and was hoping the issue would be resolved in 10.6.5 update but no luck.
Whats the deal?
Is there any solution to get the traditional saturation, color and brightness of my displays restored?
Just so you have a little background on myself, I am an IT technician of 5 years and a digital artist of 10 years. I do not believe that this issue can be resolved with recalibrating the display profile because I have tried it (many times). I REALLY hope this is not the new standard.
If it is see ya later 10.6! Hello 10.5.
Thanks in advance

Although it seems like a pain, I think it best to clean install. Reason only being, you want to cut out as many variables as you can.
If you have a spare drive, just install 10.6 on there just for experimenting; you don't need to install any programs. You just wanna eliminate all variables, so see if and if so, where up until (10.6.3?) the problem arises.
A clean install is fast, especially with snow. 20-30 min maybe? Run diskwarrior after that if you have it too.
Also, what happens when you adjust the brightness? Does it just stay dark? (I'm just trying to grasp what the "darkness" looks like)

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If all you need is to be able to control another computer, then ARD would be overkill. If the systems have Mac OS X 10.5 or later you can use the Screen Sharing built into those versions of Mac OS X to control the system.
Another and perhaps easier option is to use a service such as LogMeIn or TeamViewer. Either option may be significantly easier than dealing with screen sharing or ARD.
You'll want to confirm that any solution you choose will work with Parallels, of course. I haven't tried remote control of a system to use Parallals, so there may be special considerations there. If you don't get useful comments here, you might try Parallels' forums.
Regards.

Dim Screen and Over saturation Mac Pro 1,1 - 10.6.5

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