Images seem fine in the bridge, but way off opening in Photoshop

Don't know what I did to my system, but am now having some color management headaches. I use Photoshop and Bridge CS5.1 and for some reason, the color management is not consistent between bridge and PS... Although it was until recently. I'm on a Mac Pro Tower, with a properly calibrated screen (using an Eye One Pro) and all my other color management applications are performing very well, but I have this divergence now in Adobe where if I find an image in Bridge, it seems OK, but when I open the image in Photoshop, it is way too desaturated and slightly upward. I checked that a correct profile is embeded in each picture, but regardless of the source file. I opened images in grayscale with a gain of point or on-board gamma profile, images without embedded profile, sRGB and Adobe 1998 images appeared, and they are all open too bright. Looks like some sort of conversion must be the case, but I do not understand what it is. Color settings is set to integrated reserve and ask at the opening of the incompatibilities, but it's the same as it has always been on my system. I understand without an installation "suite," I can not access the dialog box color settings Creative Suite to synchronize color between several Adobe applications, but things have been fine for the years between my PS & the bridge, so I did something wrong. It is also interesting to note that images RAW in Bridge open the same search in the dialog of processing RAW in Photoshop, so somehow it is more related to PSD, TIFF and JPEG files.

I have used the soft of Cocktail for the maintenance of the General system on my Mac, and in the dialog box, remove the old files cahce I remember there was an option to clear cache Color Sync (with a bunch of other caches), then maybe that 'clean up' dirsupted somehow my color matching capabilities?

I've been on CS5 when I noticed this problem, so I tried to uninstall, download the slightly more recent CS5.1 and re - install, but the problem persists. Perhaps the application uninstall program won't get rid of all the hidden support files, or maybe it's something else entirely? Have trashed prefs files and restarted, still the same problem.

Screen shot 2011-11-12 at 3.33.56 PM.jpg

Note how the image on the right is much lighter, shadows starts to look like Posterize, colors lose saturation. Left is bridge and right is Photoshop. Screenshot made on the calibrated monitor.

Thanks for your suggestions!

See: gballard.net/psd/colorlooksbad.html

Two known bugs that affect the color of Photoshop:

STAGE PROFILES

or Version 4 ICC profile

Don't know if that's it, but maybe that Chris Cox has an idea, now that you have found the issue...

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