New External Display Color Syncing

So I got a refurbished Samsung SyncMaster 932GW for my Late 2006 MacBook to use as a semi-permanent external display. Obviously I'd like it and the built-in screen to look the same, so I set both to use the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (because neither profile works with the other). For comparison purposes I'm using the test pattern here: http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/barsb.html. Both displays are at full brightness (and contrast on the 932GW) and I've turned off the Dynamic Contrast, MagicColor, and other gewgaws on the 932GW.
On the SyncMaster the test pattern looks...right. The white looks as pure as I can tell, and the other colors are what I remember them to be.
But on the Color LCD, it looks crappy. The interface (windows, icons, etc) have a strong bluish cast, and the display overall (esp. the test image) has an overall anemic quality. This might just be due to comparison, but it's still distracting.
Am I going about this whole thing the right way? Is there some other standard (image or profile) I should be using? Or is it an entirely hopeless endeavour to get these two displays to agree?

What I gather from reading magazines and browsing various forums is that most monitors do not quite have the correct colors out of the box, shift over time, and need to be calibrated periodically. Calibration can be software based, using your eyes to calibrate (such as with the color calibration tools provided with OSX), or can use calibration devices, such as HUEY or Colorvision's Spyder 3. Calibration devices actually read your screen colors and tonal settings and adjust them to the standards you select. I've found Huey to be useless on LCDs. Using Spyder 3 has resulted in better colors on my MacBook Pro screen, but I have been unable to get Spyder 3 Elite to match the laptop screen and external monitor colors (Wacom 21ux), even though it is specifically intended to match colors across a numbe of monitors. Would like to hear what progress you make.

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