Major color shifts during softproofing in CS4

Hi All,
I'm new here and looking for some help. I'm running CS4 on MacOS 10.5.8. I'm not new to color management but am having a problem with a particular output profile that's driving me nuts.
I usually print at home, and get fantastic results using my home work-flow (and yes, my monitor is calibrated) but recently decided to try my local Costco for printing.
My working space is adobeRGB--I work on my file, save a copy as a tiff and then softproof using the Nortisu profile provided by Dry Creek photo for my local Costco. After soft proofing, I flatten, crop, resize and sharpen and then convert to the image to the Costco profile without the embedded colorspace.
My issue is when I softproof with one image, I get a major color shift--if there's a way to post the file, I'd be happy too. It turns a lime green frog into a greenish mustard color and I can't recover the color with any amount of adjustment (primarily with selective color channels with hue/saturation and curves layers). Most of my other photos have very subtle shifts in contrast and brightness, but no major color shifts.
Any ideas--I know they are using Fuji Crystal Archive paper and an 80,000 dollar Noritsu printer so I wouldn't think I would have huge out of gamut issues, but maybe that's the case?
Thanks for your help and if there's a way to attach the original file so people can see the softproof themselves, let me know.
Cheers,
Gabriel.

Tai Lao,
I'm confused--I am embedding the aRGB file into my original file. Next I am working on a copy of that image which I soft proof with the Costco Noritsu profile. Only after I have worked on the color shifted image to I convert the profile from aRGB to the Costo profile, so at no point is there no embedded profile in the actual file. Now, I did do an out of gamut check and lo and behold, the lime green (and that's the best discription of the frog's overall color) was completely out of gamut...what strikes me is that the color shift is so completely extreme!
Anyway, I'll have to try the color swatch option to choose an in gamut color which I hope closely resembles the color seen in the aRGB image...my question now is how do I view the color swatch!?
Here's another question--I assumed that sRGB has a narrower gamut than the printers profile, yet when I soft proof the aRGB embedded image using sRGB the color shift is not nearly as extreme. That's why I feel like something funky is going on using the costco Profile (which is downloaded from Dry Creek to answer someone elses question). Why would a narrower color space, such as sRGB, retain more of the file's original color than a wider color space, like the Costco Noritsu profile?
OK...thanks for everyone's help again.
Gabriel.

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