Images in gallery now dark and dull

I added some new photos to my iWeb photo gallery, but when published, they look much darker and duller on the page slideshow, both in Safari and Firefox, and reds especially look horrible. The original photos were saved down to sRGB so they'd look the same for non-Safari viewers, but it seems like iWeb has converted them some other way, and they don't look very good at all.
For a comparison, see the way one of them is supposed to look (on Flickr):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlostracco/716062181/
...and how iWeb has interpreted it (using the same source image):
http://web.mac.com/mlostracco/Bitpicture/Photography.html#8
Considering this is a PHOTO GALLERY feature, it kinda defeats the purpose when the photos it produces are hideous.

I thought Marsviolet had the solution for a moment there. Unchecking doesnt make the change Im looking for though.
Joachim is close to hitting the nail on the head regarding the Gamma. What I am experiencing is almost precisely the same effect as if one were to open the image in Photoshop and adjust the levels (input-center) to a value of .81.
Thats a gamma adjustment. Ive played with profiles in my images with no solution. The damage occurs as Marsviolet points out at the time of upload. If you watch your images in the iWeb window you will see it happen right in front of you.
Not sure how Apple can get iPhoto images to match in appearance to those in Preview, Photoshop, WebBrowser (albeit with MINOR color shifts) and yet iWeb seems to bugger them up.
A fix has to be on its way because replacing the images manually on the idisk is not an option, nor is saving out a set of files from photoshop specifically to compensate for the gamma. This is supposed to be an integrated suite.
One could argue that it is not designed for the pro user but that would be a very weak argument as there are many serious amateurs shooting better images than pros just for the sake of doing what they love and showing it to the world.
Come on Apple. Listen up.

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