Making adjusted color settings the camera default

Hey guys,
I calibrated my monitor last night and now I'm working on calibrating my camera.
I just went though shooting a Gretag color chart with my camera and adjusting aperture's "color" dialog box to make the external chart and the now captured chart match as closely as possible. How would I go about setting these slider settings as the default? I've tried "Set as camera default, but something tells me its not capturing the colors I have changed. When I import new images the color setting preset is not automatically applied.
Ideas?

Can't help you with the presets, I have never used them. About the calibration, I have the notion that one always has to calibrate the light source together with the sensor, so any camera calibration you perform is only valid for one given light source.
When I care about exact reproduction (and not just artistic effect) I just shoot a grey card. This only 'calibrates' the overall hue. But I don't think it possible to much else with a calibration by hand (not using sensors and algorithms as with hardware display calibrators).

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