IPhoto books appear oversaturated

I realized some iPhoto books and I was disappointed by the quality of the pictures because they appear oversaturated.
I tried saving the PDFs from iPhoto and also the PDFs appear oversaturated if I open in Adobe Reader or Apple Preview.
But the pictures (all with embedded sRGB color profile) are well balanced in iPhoto and in Photoshop, and If I make photographic prints they are OK.
Where is the problem? Is in the PDF conversion made from iPhoto when it sends the books to print?
I work on a MacPro with Snow Leopard, and a LaCie 324 monitor calibrated with Xrite instrument. I live in Italy and the iPhoto books are printed in Europe, the first time I received them from Czech Republic, the second from Holland.
Here are three PDFs saved from iPhoto with oversaturated pictures
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1631025/Diego_Cuoghi_Computergrafica_3D_300dpi.pdf  (40mb)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1631025/Diego_Cuoghi_Grafica_300dpi.pdf  (32mb)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1631025/Diego_Cuoghi_Fotoinserimenti_300dpi.pdf  (54mb)

hey, i was looking for iphoto book back up tips and i read your post sometimes ago....
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance
what do you meant by back up a copy of library6 iphoto database file?how can i do it?
I have back up my iphoto library to an external hard disk, is that mean the iphoto books will be saved as well?

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