System colors definitely wrong

I bought a MacBook Pro yesterday (2.8 GHz, OS X 10.6 [why not 10.6.3? I guess Best Buy has old Mac in their warehouse: not nice]) and migrated my entire PowerBook G4 to it via Firewire. 61 gigs later, as I cast my undeserving eyes upon my beautiful new screen, I noticed that the colors and tones of my desktop picture were kind of different. Then I noticed that the un-visited links on webpages looked, not quite blue, but rather an intense darkish blue-purple. Then I noticed that some pages containing flash applications have rather intense, offish colors to them. I've been using Mac laptops since the first 180
Did I get a defective display?
Or is it that the migration assistant imported some settings belonging to the PowerBook G4 and it messed up the system colors in the MacBook Pro?
Any opinions would be appreciated.

Scott:
Thanks so very much for the help. I had attempted calibration, but not with expert mode. But now I did it and it definitely looks better now, though I think there's still some tweaking to do.
I lost a sentence in my original post: I have used color mac laptops since the 180c, and I do notice a big difference.
It might be that I'm not used to the brilliance of the new LCD, but I do know that the colors are wrong. And I do believe, after much thinking, that it had to do with the settings being messed up with Migration, since it copied my entire old PowerBook, settings included, to the MacBook Pro. Perhaps they should warn you about that when you migrate.
I'll mark the question as answered, since it seems to have had an effect, but I'm unhappy about Apple not letting you know that such things can go so wrong in Migration.
I'll keep trying to calibrate...
Thanks so very much for your help and time,
Saúl
PS: I couldn't figure out how to attach a pic here. Sorry.
S.

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