Pages, monitor colors don't match printed colors

Hey Everyone,
I'm new to this mac world, and boy do I feel like a newbie. I'm trying to use Pages to print some nice brochures. I have a Savin commercial color Laser CLP27DN, 1200 dpi
When I print the default color templates from Pages, It prints colors just like the monitor, beautiful. When I have a graphic artist send me a high res PDF it prints just like the monitor, beautiful. This makes me think the printer and monitor are synched correctly.
When, I try to print my own designs, the colors are off about 2 shades. And, the photos are a little darker when printed.
The printer supports colorsync. I believe I have installed the colorsync profiles correctly. Since 2 types of jobs print beautifully, I've got to believe it is a pages problem.
Applecare was very little help, they don't support colorsync. It's kind of ironic, I bought a Mac to ramp up my graphic designs.
I'm beginning to think Pages is a low end graphics program, and I should buy and buy a professional package that is not too hard to learn.
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I don't know the answers to the things you list, but I had a similar problem which I addressed by selecting all of the graphics the document at once and then adjusting the opacity to 80% before printing. When printed on white paper, it brightened the colors up considerably. It may not be the permanent fix for the issue, but it helped me get the work done.

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