DVD Player Plays Everything Too Dark...

I've followed the Monitor Calibration settings, everything looks beautiful... except when I play a DVD the scenes are way too dark. I've set up a custom color preset for DVD Player, and this works beautifully but everytime I start up DVD player it reverts to the normal setting (Too Dark). How can I get DVD Player to use my color preset as the default setting. The Mac Mini is my media server only, so I don't want to have to fumble through the menu to change settings every time I watch a DVD. I've unchecked the 'Always Use Disc Settings" for Video Color and Video Zoom, but the problem persists. Anybody know how I can get my Custom Setting to become the default settings?

Ok, it looks like the always use disc settings is to remember what settings you last used for that disc, so Ive rechecked that, so how do I get it to apply those settings automatically to the new discs I play as well.

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