Tiger, iPhoto 5.02, and B&W Photo Problem!

Yikes! After installing Tiger (10.4) with iPhoto 5.02, my black and white photos appear with a very high contrast when viewed in iPhoto. The thumbnails look fine, but the full size image quality is extremely poor! They were OK before the tiger upgrade.
Color photos are unaffected.
Even more strange, if I change the "on screen" display size from "fit to window," to 100%, 150%, or 200% (etc), the image becomes a negative (white is black and black is white)!
Thankfully, the actual image files are OK. I can export the image and view them in Photoshop and they look fine (I do all my editing in Photoshop before importing them in iPhoto).
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks
Dave

Thanks to Old Toad - Up to a point...but you can NOT restore the unwanted darkening of the picture by adjusting exposure, contrast etc.. It has lost detail in the grayscale. The only safe way to edit these pictures is now by exporting to another program (Photoshop). When I am now adding new B&W photos I try to remember to uncheck the embedded colour profile box, and not to use iPhoto for editing.
But I don't want iPhoto to change the photos at all unless I ask it to. I don't understand why it has started mucking up the files since Tiger and I want Apple to put this right PDQ.
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