Photoshop CS4 Weird Collor

I'm having a problem with colors in Photoshop CS4. When I open a photo in Photoshop, it alters the colors compared with other softwares for viewing photos (I'm talking about FastStone Image viewer, Windows Picture Viewer, Internet Browser like Opera).
For example, when I open a photo
( http://z.about.com/d/painting/1/5/O/...oryMixture.jpg )
the green and blue become much more darker, than in other softwares. In fact all colors become darker, but green and blue stand out the most (blue is almost mauve). It's a Photoshop thing (I just reseted all settings, and Lightroom does the same).
I shot the pictures with a Nikon d90 set on color space sRGB and Photoshop is set also on sRGB.
Does anyone know what is going on? This is very frustrating!!!
Thanks in advance!!!

Notebook Sony VGN-NR160E - Photoshop is using the monitor Profile, you created using your Spyder3, to display images. The Other apps don't pay any attention to this profile. Thats the cause of the difference you are seeing.
So calibration has to be done correctly: You should be using a gamma of 2.2 - and make sure that the screen is clean and that there are no interfering factors. like strong light . Also make sure that in your PC's Monitors Control Panel - that your display is picking up the correct profile that you made. Make sure you name it at the end of the Spyder process, so that its identifiable in the displays drop down menu.
Its vaguely possible that the Spyder 3 device isn't set correctly, or is malfunctioning in some way.

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