Photo Prints Yellow and washed out

I am having problems printing photos on photo paper.  I have windows 7 64 bit and all my hp software and drivers are up to date.  My printer is c5180 and I have not had any trouble in the past.  I upgraded to windows 7 in Dec., and have had several printing issues since then.  By the way, I really loved the photo premiere software that came with my printer, but is no available with windows 7.  I have tried printing from several programs including picasa, and the windows photo viewer, which I also don't like as much as windows xp.  I have tried several different settings, including the default everthing on automatic, messed with the color setting in the printer settup, and tried printing on 8.5 x 11 as well as my 4 x 6 photo paper.  If I print on regular white paper the colors are just fine, it is only when I use photo paper.  My photo paper is HP Premium Photo paper.  I have attached scans of two photos and you can see the one on photo paper is yellow and washed out whereas the one on plain paper has good coloring.  Do I need to change anything in color profiles? 
I have no idea how to get my pictures to display.  They are on picasa web albums and I also tried to just drag them in. 

Did anyone ever solve this problem?  I have the exact situation with my C5180 and I am about replace it.

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