Exported photos are too saturated (reds especially)

I use iPhoto to store all my photos and to do occasional quick edits.
However, exported photos look so much more saturated than they do when viewed (double-clicked) within iPhoto, especially the red colors. This is also true when the photos are viewed from directly within the iPhoto Package file, and also when viewed as a thumbnail within iPhoto - the colors are much more saturated.
Why is this happening? After editing my photos within iPhoto I can never export them the way they are meant to look no matter what I do. It seems as if iPhoto uses its own color profiling that is useless outside the iPhoto application.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this is becoming more and more bothersome.
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I have trashed the Preview pref files, but to no avail. I have also tried the following:
- I have tried uploading the image file from the finder onto Facebook and Picasa and viewed in Safari and Firefox. The images also look consistent (mostly) with the aforementioned applications!
- I have tried viewing the images directly within Safari and Firefox by dragging the image onto the respective browser icons in the dock and in Safari it's the same Preview Saturated look (prob because Safari uses the same rendering as Leopard Preview), but in Firefox it looks like it does in all the aforementioned applications...
- I have tried opening them in my WindowsXP VMWare using the default Explorer application and they look consistent with the aforementioned applications.
- I have tried creating another user account on my Mac and logging in to preview the images, but it makes no difference.
Any further suggestions?

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