PhotoCal/XP worketh not!

["wogears" <wogears@fast.net>]

Hello!

I am attempting to use PhotoCal with Spyder (the real one)
on Win XP Home. I DON'T get the crashes and hangs that some
do, but I have still managed somehow to bollix things up
thoroughly! The main symptom is that PhotoCal runs through
its entire procedure seemingly flawlessly, and the results
are, uh, really awful! Neutral grey values in PS are about
CC30Y, files on screen in PS6.0.1 look about the same CC30Y
different from Epson prints using known-good custom
profiles, etc. Things on-screen are just plain yellow.

Some observations: After uninstalling PhCal and
reinstalling, recalibrating and rebooting, the "PhotoCal
Profile" is installed in the correct directory, but does not
show up in the "Settings" tab of the Control Panel. There I
find some wierdly-named version of the sRGB profile
(possibly created by Adobe Gamma?). Manually adding and
selecting the "PC Profile" does NOT fix things. Yellow cast
remains on-screen :-(

Questions: Is this simply an XP compatibility problem, which
will be fixed by an impending update? Is there some way to
manually restore my monitor color settings to the _de novo_
state so as to be able to use Adobe Gamma or similar
utility? Conversely, how do I disable Adobe Gamma entirely
if necessary, and where do the video LUT's reside so I can
also get rid of them should I have to?

Sorry for all the many questions, but it is taking a bit of
time to get up to speed on this Windows stuff...

Thanks!
Les
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