Monitor profile applied twice?

Hi guys,
the colors in Lightroom (and Photoshop Elements 7 Raw import window as well) look green and flat. I could fix this problem in the PSE7 editor window by switching off the monitor color profile. But I cannot find any similar handle in LR and PSE7 raw importer. So, it seems to me that the monitor profile is applied twice -- once from LR/PSE (which assumes no further color treatment, so does the correction itself), and second the graphics card (which expects uncalibrated color informations as input).
Switching off calibration does not help either.
System is
Vaio VGN-AW31ZJ/F (Laptop, Wide Gamut display)
Windows Vista Home Premium
Datacolor Spyder 3 Pro, SW Version 3.2.1
I'm desperated... I mean, this is not such an unusual combination...
Please advice.

So, last night I've lost my patience with Windoze... All thesepop-ups and advanced and advanced-advanced andadvanced-advanced-advanced options in sub and sub-sub and sub-sub-sub dialogue boxes drive me nuts.... So, I'm back tothe good-old brute force methods:
From the discussionabove it is clear that (a) all I need is the monitor profile and(b) that the problem is related to the system (and not specific to LRor PSE7). Thus I simply have deleted all icc/icm files in the profiles directory, except the one from Spyder -- and surprise, surprise, the colors seem to be correct now (if meanwhile my eyes have not adapted to the wrong colors.....) Will have to cross-check with a printout and perhaps a "calibrated" proof print, if I can find one... But a priori, the test image looks fine now and is consistent with other monitor profile aware viewers. The colors also seems to be consistent with what I get on the Linux side when monitor profile management is enabled (difficult to compare directly in dual boot mode...).
After deleting the "useless files", I still saw a very slight green tint in test image. Then I played a bit with the rendering options perceptive/saturation/relative/absolute in the Windows system settings -- before I could reboot the machine (to make sure that there are no left-over settings floating around), just in this moment SP2 arrived. Switching back to the default settings (perceptive for photos) after installation of SP2, I cannot see the green tint anymore.
There's still some other junk in the Windows profile directory (wscRGB.cdmp, Photo.gmmp, D65.camp,...)... Dunno which harm this does. At least, Bill didn't let me delete it by default... Has anyone any clue what those files are about...?
I also have tried out the v2 ICC profiles. Actually,  I was working all the time with v2, which is the default setting in my version of Spyder 3 Pro. However I don't see any difference in the outcome. (Okay, I didn't look at the rendering of the shadows in LR yet.).
Regarding Firefox 3.5, I don't see any problem with color management a in firefox yet. Just want to mention that you can change firefox's color management behavior by typing "about:config" in the URL and then scroll down to gfx.color_management. Here you can type in the name of the monitor profile (display_profile) as well as the "mode": mode is  set to 2 by default, but folks report to get better (correct) results when setting mode to 1. Me, myself I haven't seen any difference here (yet). Actually, Jeffrey Friedl has very nice test pictures on pages 1 and 2 of this above mentioned Blog page where you don't need to guess whether CM works at all or whether it's right or wrong. For me, everything comes out correct.
 PS: Graphics card is according to the spec sheet an "NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT GPU".

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