Printing from InDesign Using ICC Profiles

Hello,
I'm trying to find the best way to print from InDesign to my Epson R2400. I'm a graphic design student, with a background in Photography. When printing images from photoshop, I always use the proper paper profile for the inkjet paper I'm using and I get spot-on results. My monitor is profiled, and I have a decent knowledge of color management.
When I print from InDesign, I achieve the best results using the Adobe RGB1998 output profile in the print dialogue. This produces fair results, but not as accurate as I get when printing images from photoshop using the appropriate paper profile. When I use a paper profile from InDesign (i.e. Epson SP2400 Enhanced Matte), the results are flat and washed out. I've tried opening the print driver dialog (via the "printer" button) and making sure that color management is turned "off" to avoid double-profiling, but this does not fix the problem. I've also tried checking the "print as bitmap" box in the InDesign print dialogue, but this only makes things worse.
Can anyone tell me why I can't print with an appropriate paper/profile via InDesign? I'm usign CS3, with a Macbook Pro, running Leopard. Epson R2400 with Epson Inks, Epson paper and matching Epson ICC Profiles.
Thank You.

It is the monitor profile. Change profiles and you will see a different output each time.
The condition of the monitor can in no way affect the output, but as soon as you re-profile a change in the monitor settings the new profile will affect the output.
In theory if you can hardware calibrate the monitor and not create a new profile (what software might allow this?) there would be no changes to the print but what about what you see on the screen?
Of course this is all based on you creating a ID specific paper profile.

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