Poor flesh tones on HDTV from iPhoto & EyeTV

I have an Insignia HDTV hooked up to an iintel Mac Mini via DVI at 1600x900 (and have also tried via VGA) and experience poor flesh tones on certain pictures from iPhoto and with certain headshots from EyeTV. Things look great frrom my old Mac Mini and on my ibook via VNC.
Any ideas?
Fritz

I'd be interested to see what's going on. When you say whites become green, I'm not a color specialist so if they're taking on a green cast, I might not see it, but, if you're looking at the coloring crayons in the color picker, if it's going from "Snow" to "Clover" I'll probably spot that

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