Problems with saturation: iPhoto vs CS4

Hi! Am sure there's information about this somewhere in this forum, but haven't be able to actually find it. Been also googleing for a couple of days now and am still frustrated for not finding a straight forward answer to this: Why does pictures look more saturated in iPhoto than in Photoshop? It's driving me nuts. And especially since by "more" saturated I mean "too".
Would like to be able to look at my pictures in iPhoto, and to show them to friends, but since they look too saturated in iPhoto, I've now been looking for other programs to browse them with. The colors between Photoshop and Preview doesn't seem to be the same either.
Feels stupid to need to download an additional program to do something as simple as to browse photos without getting frustrated about the differences in saturation.
Isn't there any way to stop iPhoto to automatically "make the pictures more vivid" (or whatever the creators of that program have thought of)?

Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder. (Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
Regards
TD

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