Dock icons much paler colour in SL than Leopard

Hi
Has anyone else noticed that the icons in the dock are less saturated in colour than in Leopard 10.5?
I noticed this as I have spent most of the afternoon calibrating an Eizo CG241W and the paler icons in Snow Leopard became very noticeable.
It's the same for the blue folder icons within Finder - colours are very pale.
However, the colour of images within Photoshop or InDesign CS3 as well as images in Safari are all bright and correct, like Leopard. I don't get it.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the new Dock's lack of bright colour?
Many thanks, Ian UK

Same here. Calibrated Eizo LCD. In colour managed apps, photos show fine, but Apple's User Interface, especially Finder and Dock icons, are not managed at all. Looking inside their app bundles (Finder.app/Resources/...) I can see that all the little PNG and TIFF files that make up the icons have Gamma 1.8 profile embedded (e.g. GenericRGB), although Snow Leopard runs in Gamma 2.2 by default (and I calibrated to 2.2 for years before that).
In my eyes, that is a bug, not an interface quirk. If I have colour management on, I want to see everything colour managed. Washed out icons in Finder and Dock are ugly.

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