IWeb 09 color output messed up

Hi,
I have an iWeb site set up so that an iFrame photo gallery from another site is embedded inside my iweb page. Everything worked beautifully in iweb08. I have set up the embedded gallery so that the background colors are the same as the iweb page (333333) and it blends perfectly. Seems simple enough. web standard colors are web standard colors.
I have just updated my sites to iWeb09 and everything looks great *within iWeb*. iWeb connects to the internet and the preview loads the embedded website and it looks identical to my iWeb08 site. BUT when I publish this site and view it (firefox/safari - windows and mac) the iweb-created site background suddenly appears much lighter (about 555555) than the embedded iframe gallery (333333).
I notice that in the new iweb09 css file, colors are no longer displayed as HTML, but instead the RGB "equivalents". This seems to be the only difference between my old iweb08 css and the new iweb09 css. So I simply replaced the new with the old...Same color problems. *What am I missing?* *What could be corrupting the color output in iWeb 09??* This is really annoying and for now I should probably just revert to iweb08 on my external backup drive. I guess I'll also pick apart all of iweb09's output files to try to find the problem html or css.
Why Apple? Why?????

OK, so I read that support note several times from Apple and figured out how to use it as a workaround. In my case, I needed a background that was the same color as parts of the foreground elements for a seamless blend (a nav bar on the left, done with HTML snippit). It was driving me absolutely nuts trying to get a simple accurate RGB value generated from iWeb. RGB... hmmmmmm. Mucked with my snapshot color HMMMMMM....
Ok, so RGB color spaces are commonly embedded in images, etc. I thought, well, what if iWeb is using that at the time of the assignment of a color to a object (like my stretchable square) and pre-screwing-up the color in the definition of the square? To work around, I would have to do the gamma hokie pokie so my RGB color space was something that iWeb would be happy with... generate the square of color, then set the color space back. In theory, this should give me a proper value for the square's color on output (matches what everyone sees in the &^#% browser). Badda boom, badda bing, it worked:
Steps:
1) set your monitor color space to sRGB IEC61966 in the System Prefs under Display, Color tab
2) generate your evil iWeb color square of death using the Color Picker and the magnifying glass to select the onscreen color you want to match.
3) set your monitor back to the *normal* setting (Apple Cinema Display for example)
When you want to use that color, copy that square and paste it. It will carry the proper RGB around with it (or at least it is working for me right now...)
Now, if anyone else uses this approach with a color different than Navy blue, please indicate and also indicate of the grey dog ear was on your problem color when this all started.

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