MBP display is washed out blue, until I open display prefs

My MacBook Pro is just a few days old, but I've noticed a strange problem. On startup, the display is washed out, with a blue tint. But as soon as I open System preferences and click on Display prefs, it snaps back into its proper rich color.
I don't have to adjust anything, it just changes automatically. But it's a pain to have to keep opening system prefs just to get the screen to look right.
The washed out color is easy to notice, because I have the MBP hooked up to an external 20" cinema display, which looks normal.
Is this a hardware or a software problem? Should I take it back to the Apple Store?

I get this on my non primary account when returning to my computer after the screensaver was active (with password).
I believe this isn't specific to MBP. I had this same issue on my old powerbook G4 except that it was when I was switching users.
The issue I believe is related to having a custom colorsync profile. Pre-leopard the bug would not get fixed by opening Displays preference, but required the running of /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DMProxy which fixed the screen.

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I hope someone might have some insight with my PB problem.
Thank you in advance for reading my long winded 1st post.
I wonder if any one else is having a similar problem.
I thought that this was the best place to turn for advice.
I have a one month old 15"PB, with 1.5 gigs of ram, and a 100 gig 7200 rpm hitachi HD, which has been running great until last Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday I ran for the "first" time the software updater to 10.4.3. I don't think this is the reason for the following problem because of the reinstalls of the original OS, but you never know.
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hi guys
I need some expert help on this. Using a Dell E178 WFP external display on my 2010 Macbook Pro via mini-DVI-to-VGA adapter. This display has no EDID it seems so I use SwitchResX to create the necessary resolution override (1440x900). SwitchResX has nothing such as daemons or helpers installed on top, so this boils down to graphics drivers.
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