Which color profile is more accurate?

Hi! I recently got a MacBook Pro with Lion and I noticed that the default color profile is Color LCD (which seems a bit too warm to me), and there's also the option to change to Adobe RGB (which is more bluish) or two other RGB profiles. Which one is more accurate? This is really important for me because I work in Photoshop and I would like to ensure that what I see on my monitor is what most people see on theirs and also that my images are going to be printed with colors as close as possible to the ones I see.

There are systems to calibrate monitors for color rendition. I would suggest you try one of those to create a custom profile for your MBP screen. If you are doing photography for pay this something you should have.
Personally I don't find my screen to warm and I do all my main image editing on a desktop system with 2 monitors and the one that holds the image, tools on the other monitor, is calibrated with one of these systems.
And then my Printer is calibrated to match my screen.

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