How do I Fix Messed up Colour Profiles

I've somehow managed to completely mess up my colour profiles in Photoshop CS5. What a total Gormlops I am. Can anyone help me with these 2 related problems?
1 - ACR displays colours from RAW files as lifeless and dull compared to JPEG. I've searched countless forums and I'm lead to understand that RAW files don't include the 'in-camera' processing that we see on the JPEGS. What I don't understand is that ACR used to display the colours on my RAW files exactly like it did with JPEG files so although I understand the difference in the way ACR handles RAW vs JPEG why has this only become noticable in the last few months? I've had this installation of CS5 for almost 2 years and the problem crept in only recently. How do I fix this?
2 - Proof Colours Confusion
I mostly work on the web and rarely need to print. Round about the same time the above problem reared it's ugly head I also started having issues with how many graphics colours looked in CS5. I realized that half of the time I was working with 'Proof Colours' switched off which made my colours really intense (something to do with gamma).
I checked my 'Proof Setup' and switched it to Internet sRGB seeing as I mostly work with web graphics and photos. I then hit Ctrl+Y to switch on Proof Colours and now I see the colours as they really are.
My question for this is twofold - Am I correct to be working in sRGB and is there ar way to have 'Proof Colours' always switched on so that I only EVER see the 'actual' colours that others will see when I publish my files to the web?
I can't help thinking that these two issues arose at the same time and are linked. I tried installing a demo of CS6 in the hopes it would set me back to where I used to be but alas nothing changed.
Thanks in advance.

Try posting in the Adobe Camera Raw forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/cameraraw?view=discussions
You might want to do a forum search there before posting, though. This comes up repeatedly and has been discussed ad nauseam there.
In a nutshell ACR is not designed to emulate the in-camera JPEGs at all.

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