IPhoto profile issue explored

I've read other posts here about the issue of dim and oversaturated photos in iPhoto. I am also experiencing this. Here's what I've learned.
I've had a Canon Rebel XT for a couple years, and we use it exclusively with iPhoto. I've had no problems with it. I just sold it and got a Canon 40d. This is when I begin experiencing the problem. I usually shoot with my camera set to sRGB, but also experienced with this with Adobe RGB.
If I import a picture with the 'assign colorsync profile' checked in iPhoto, the photo is dark. If I export the file and view in preview, the photo is dark as well. The preview info shows the profile: Camera RGB profile.
When I de-select that option in iPhoto, the photo looks the same viewed in iPhoto. But when I export it, and view it in Preview, it looks correct. The preview info shows the profile as: '-'. When I look at an old picture taken with the Rebel XT, the preview info shows the profile as "Canon Digital Rebel XT". Interesting.
Now, I took the same photo imported two different ways (with and without the iPhoto profile assign option), and copied them onto my Macbook Pro, which is running Leopard (my iMac runs Tiger). The photo imported with the iPhoto profile assign still shows 'camera RGB'. The one imported without shows 'sRGB IEC......'. Very interesting, that the sRGB profile assigned by my 40d is correctly shown in Leopard, but not Tiger. iPhoto also shows both photos properly on my MacBook Pro, as well as anything imported with or without the 'assign profile' option. Hmmm.
So, on my iMac where I'm having the problem, I run the automator script by Mr. Toad to assign sRGB to a jpg, reload it into iPhoto and BOOM - looks correct.
All this to say - I'm totally at a loss on how to solve this, and I'm wondering if any experts have any insight. It's obviously a problem with iPhoto and what profile it's using to view photos. I've seen others with this problem running Leopard, so I doubt this problem is exclusive to one version of OS X.
Thanks in advance,
- Kent Hooper

I've been tearing my hair out with this. My problems began after installing Leopard and ILife 08. It wasn't just my 40D images that were dark. Suddenly all my 300D images from way back were dark too.
I began to think it has something to do with the screen calibration and tried to re-calibrate using Supercal but couldn't even see the test patterns. Then I learnt that in Preferences/Universal Access (which I'd never touched) there is a contrast slider which was set way too dark. Putting this to 'normal' made my screen look much better (the stars came out on the Leopard desktop background!).
My iPhoto photos now look about right. Perhaps different programs were choosing the take notice or ignore this contrast slider.

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