Proofing Photo looks great, Un-Proofing, Bad

I am having trouble with my color settings and I hope someone can help. When I open an image in Photoshop CS4 it looks great. I then tell it to proof for my canon pixma 9500 Mark II printer with the appropriate paper. The image changes a bit, but still looks good. I then print that one, close the file, and open another photo only to have it look like crap. I literally have to restart Photoshop each time. If I have a photo open and choose to proof it, then unselect proof, it goes to some horrible looking photo. Seems it will not go back to the default color setting when I opened the file.
Any suggestions? Driving me crazy and wasting my time.
Thanks,
Toby

I'm sorry that I wasn't clear. I did a favor & shot some baby pics for a friend. I just wanted to make certain that the "actual Iphoto picture (file)" that I took, and that looks good in my Iphoto was what I was sending her. I'd hate to think that she's getting the horrible one that I was seeing. However I realize that her Mail will "see" things differently than mine apparently. At least if she prints my picture "file" it should be ok I'm guessing.
Since the picture looks good in my "Preview" application, I'll assume that it's just Mail that lets it appear distorted. Just frustrating for me to not "see" what I'm sending correctly in Mail.

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