System Color Corruption

Not sure what happened, but the OS X system colorpicker seems to have become corrupted. I can't get select red. Whenever I try to choose red from the color picker, the color selected is orange.
Please see this screenshot to see what I'm talking about - http://www.hallnet.com/temp/RedProblem.jpeg.
The screenshot shows the ColorJack web site in Safari with a color wheel with red (R:255, G:0. B:0) selected, Textedit with the system color picker and red selected, but orange in the color picker box, and the DigitalColor Meter showing that the color in the system color picker box is actually orange and not a result of aberrant monitor behavior.
I've tried logging in as a different user, but I still get the same problem.
I've tested a few applications to se if the effect on color is universal. Most display the problem as soon as I try to pick a color, but PhotoShop CS3 does display true red.
This problem started happening after using an application called Art Text.
I'm running Leopard 10.5.1 on an Intel Mac mini.
Any ideas?

Hi Honolulu,
I'm not sure I fully understand your post. Are you saying that you also cannot get red (255:0:0) on your Leopard and Tiger machines? And that that is OK?
FYI, I just tried this test on my MBP: Open TextEdit; Type in some text and then select it; apple-T to bring up the Font window; select Maraschino from the color picker Crayola crayons tab; open DigitalColor Meter and mouse over the text in TextEdit to see what the color really is. On my MBP, Maraschino is R:252, G:12, B:13. It's not pure red but it looks a lot redder than on my Mac mini, where the same test gives R:222, G:42, B:0 which is orange.
Also, surely it doesn't matter what you do with color correction. That is only affecting how the color is presented on the monitor. The base color red should still be 255:0:0 in DigitalColor Meter, even if it looks orange on the monitor.

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