Why do the colors of my display change when opening applications?

Something is causing my display look like it has a blue cast whenever I open applications like photoshop, google chrome, preview, etc. It's really annoying and it looks like absolute garbage. I'm a photographer and I can't get any work done if my display colors are all messed up. This happens even though I calibrated my screen with a Spyder3Pro Utility calibration software. Does anyone know why this happens and more importantly, how can I stop this from happening? So frustrating!
PS, I'm using a 15in Macbook pro, mid 2012 running OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion)

Hi Danippo13,
check out this video which explains very well the difference between different color profiles Visualizing Color Profiles on Vimeo and remember that the web uses "standard RGB - 72 dpi".
I will recommend this setting  in Edit Menu> Color Settings

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