Display Preferences lost upon sleep

Every time my new Mini goes to sleep and returns back, it loses the custom calibrated display profile setting in System Preferences/Displays/Color. (Loading the System Preferences manually and clicking on "Displays" will reset it back correctly without having to go into the Color menu.)
My display is a Dell 2408WFP - which also goes to sleep when the Mini sleeps. It's entirely possible that it's the monitor that's resetting itself.
Is there any way to force the Mini to automatically return to the custom Display Profile upon waking? Or perhaps, run a little script routine that sets it back once both the monitor and Mini have returned to the living?

I am having the same problem with my 17" MacBook Pro (and I think it happened with my old 17' Powerbook too). I have an external 23" Cinema Display and whenever the computer wakes from sleep (I think I mean display sleep actually as I don't think the laptop is set to sleep) the laptop display has lost its display preference.

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