Got myself in a color profile pickle - Windows 7

So I'm using PS CS4 on Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100).
I have profile my monitor using a cheap Spyder Express colorimeter. This produces an icc profile called spyder2express which is loaded up on startup. I know it loads correctly because it's configured to load after 10 secs delay, so I see the screen (24inch samsung 1920x1200) lose its blueish tinge.
Now then. Before I messed around with my settings photoshop would display colors wrongly. Images that appeared normal in picasa, fastone, windows image etc would get messed up in photoshop, colors were way too vivid, like someone had boosted the saturation too much.
So after a bit of fiddling the ONLY way I can get my colors to look right in PS was to configure the attached settings.
Now when I open an image from my camera (srgb) I get the profile mismatch dialog, and the only option that seems to match my other windows photo software is to choose 'discard profile'. I konw this isn't right, so please help me figure out why my spyderexpress profile isn't working as it should is ps.
Thank you, JT

Having identical issue. Using monitor profile from Eye-One. Windows 7 and CS4. The colours are over saturated straght out of the camera, the profile for that is Adobe RGB. I have the colour settings for the workspace as Adobe RGB as well.
The only solution I have come to is the same as originally posted.
Open in workspace
Assign monitor profile - the colours are corrected
Convert to Adobe RGB - so that I'm not binding the image to the monitor profile.
It is a pain - especially as I have thousands of images this is effecting.
Has anyone found an alternative solution for this?

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    Haven't tried it myself, but it looks like this should work.
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