Restoring original iMac color/display settings??

I was tinkering around with the display calibration and somewhere along the way the original display calibration was saved over and now I'm stuck with several versions of displays which all feature too much light. The places this is most obvious are on the brushed metal interfaces, where it appears there is a light source centered on the window, making a lighter colored reflection of sorts. I was hoping to restore the original settings for the display, but have been unsuccessful on my attempts so far. If anyone can help me out before my retinas detach, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.

Unfortunately, it appears that one of the profiles I changed was the factory setting, and the original factory setting has been saved over. One less than perfect solution I've come up with is creating a new account. The display settings for this "Test" account I set up and have begun using more and more has the original calibration set up and looks perfect. An interesting observation is that the other profiles I set up are accessible from this account, and when chosen look much closer to normal than in the previous account, where it was as if the white point or brightness was increased quite a bit, creating almost a white-out effect on the brushed metal interfaces, aqua buttons, and worst of all webpages with whites and grays (like apple.com), where I could barely make out the silhouette of the Mighty mouse.
If anyone has an alternative way to restore the current account's display settings to the old account, please let me know b/c I would hate to have to complete this transition to an entirely new account.
Thanks again.
- Billy

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