How Do I Achieve Accurate Color in Premiere CS5?

I am running some color test with my Canon T2i. As you can see below I purchased a color card and when I hold up the card to the screen and compare the color card to my monitor the colors look slightly different.
I have played around with saturation but I was wondering if anyone knew of a resource of where I can learn how to match the color card to what I see in Premiere?
Do I fill the frame with the card and then use RGB Parade Monitor?

There are a few things going on here so I will tryand make, hopefully, helpful comments.
First off though... I am not exactly sure what your question is. from what I see you doing. Its kind of 2 questions.
One is Monitor set up and the other is Color Correction.
You appear to be trying to "match" something you shot to a Color Chart. Thats not entirely a real world CC situation. The color chart you are using is essentially a set up device prior to starting a CC. It is not really intended to match color for color. eg skin tone and color is not on any Color Chart or Color Bars.
I am also wondering if you are "over thinking" this.
At the end of the day it all about Color correcting "to your eye" ...but then you need to know that your monitor has not taken you down a path of correcting the innacurate set up in the monitor. Be aware that when you take your "work" out to different monitors, it may look different. This is a time old issue and will never go away but if you start from a properly set up monitor..and its displayed on other properly set up monitors...thats about all you can do.
Put another way: Black, Grey, White (More important than color)
You want these tones (in a grey scale) to reproduce on any and every monitor as accurately as possible.
If you ignore the monitor set up (in Component Video) for the moment ( turn it off even) you can easily set up your image to achieve this perfectly by using the WAVEFORM monitor only. Try that with a Color Bars and see where everything sits. Should be perfect and you will see the logic of bars and the pluges.
If you have a Greyscale chart...shoot it PERFECTLY EXPOSED ...then check that out with a waveform monitor. The Black , Grey and Whites should sit perfectly on the waveform.
Try a CC on the greyscale chart while watching the wavform as you adjust shdows/ highlights / mids . LUMA /GAMMA.
Shoot a pure Grey Card or make one in PPRO (Pure Grey Matte)
Check it out with the vectorscope. There should be a single point in the scope right in the middle. If it has any points outwards...that means that it is not pure grey but has color content (Chroma)
Monitors.
The better you have your monitors set up, the easier it is to get something resembling consistency obviously.
I have never used the Sofftware Hardware mentioned but use : Color Bars, Grey Card Grey Scale and a color chart combined with waveform and vectorscope to set up my monitors .
It is worth learning everything you can about using Standard Color Bars ( as produced by Premiere Pro.) Every chip and Pluge has something to tell you and to aid your monitor set up. The Pluge set up is really important and very simple to set up if you have the controls on your monitor.
These Bars are also what are used in the field to set up monitors.
The original version of On Location ( DV Rack) had excellent instructions on how to set up a monitor based on Color Bars, Pluges and the Blue Only Mode
I do not know if it is still included in the help files of On Location. I will find it later and added it into this thread.
Maybe the serious Magicians at Adobe have easier access to the original document and could post it up?
BTW: WIndows 7 has a very good Monitor Color Management and Set up Tool included ( Advanced Setting)

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