Main monitor colors are bizarre in PS CS4 and Snow Leopard...

Also ColorEyes Display Pro, Snow Leopard, Eizo monitor, and PS CS4 are not playing well together. I I "dumb down" the calibrating software, I can get a result but that's another issue (sorta?)
I have tried several software calibration attempts from different manufacturers (Spyder, Apple, Eizo), even Apple's own built in calibrator and despite this PS CS4 visually hates all the profiles I select on the Apple Cinema HD (both LUT and Matrix, both manually tuned and system controlled on the profiling).All of this despite having the notorious "Open GL" turned off. It just looks bad in CS4 (colors are noticeably off), and the menu bar is on that monitor. Weird. This does not happen in other apps tested w/ the color of the monitor.
Any help? Thanks

I have reported a possibly related issue with my main display profile in the Adobe Color Management Forum and Apple Discussions. It is not exactly the same issue, because you don't need Photoshop to see it. I upgraded 2 machines to Snow Leopard, and only one has the problem. Unfortunately, that one is my work machine. Never mind... I know, I know.
In the Color Management Forum, I posted a screen shot that shows the issue clearly. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/488570?tstart=0
It is very puzzling. The same custom display profile appears differently in Snow Leopard, on the same hardware. Also, I haven't yet been able to create a satisfactory profile in Snow Leopard using my Eye1 Display2 calibrator. My work machine is an early 2008 Mac Pro with Apple 30" Cinema Display. This setup looks quite different on the same profile as before. My 2007 MacBook Pro 17" at home also had a custom profile, and looks exactly the same as before the Snow Leopard upgrade. Go figure.
I booted back into the clone of my old Leopard system that I of course made before the upgrade, and the screen looks just fine there. I got a screen capture of Apple's red, yellow & green window control buttons in Leopard, then displayed this screen shot in Preview in Snow Leopard, so you can see the vibrant & contrasty look from Leopard right next to the soft, dull, washed-out look in Snow Leopard. It boggles my brain how Snowy can display the Leopard look in the image, but not in its own interface elements.
Not many reports of this issue yet.

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I was working in a perfect world: new machine, clean install of 10.6.4
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I only add the fonts I need & have been careful that they are full licensed fonts from reprutable foundries.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500778
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10322624-250.html
"Snow Leopard also automatically installs Java SE 6, meaning programs that require previous versions of Java may not run properly."
I don't use Mac, but I take this to mean that rolling back your Java may improve things. Not sure, but it might be worth a shot (albeit in the dark).
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