Macbook Color Profile Question

I just bought a Macbook from my cousin yesterday. It's in great shape and not very old, which is why I bought it. It's amazing how addictive it is, I've been PC person forever.
I immediately brought it home and installed all my programs, set a desktop photo, and opened photoshop. The coloring on my photos is off. I've tried using Supercal, and calibrating using the tool in the profiles, but I can't figure this out for anything. Being new to MAC, I'm just confused---
I use Firefox for my browser. The colors are perfect in it. When I change my profile and get it to somewhat make my photos look right (or like they did in my PC. All the photos seem to have like an orangey-yellowish look to them, not majorly, but editing photos isn't going to work with it like that.), then I open Firefox and my coloring is completely off on websites.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!

in short, photos can contain their own ICC (color profile). And this effects how color look on a per photo basis. instead of modifying your display color profile you need to a just or change just color profile of the photo(s) to have them render properly.
One way to tell what color profile need to be altered is to get info on that photo. you can do this in the finder, preview, photoshop. you can also use these applications to change witch ICC is used on a photo.
these apps use ICC color profiles : safari, quick time, preview, finder, quick look, photoshop
firefox dose not use the ICC color profiles attached to photos, but you can tell it to in firefox preferences. when ICC color profiles is off in firefox it's going to use the default color calibration in system preferences display
this website dose a great, but confusing job of comparing different ICC profiles. http://www.gballard.net/psd/golive_pageprofile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html
if you want to become an expert in color management you may want to check out: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3712 . it also talks about how you can use preview to change what ICC is used with a photo.
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