QUOTE (halfpint @ Apr 19 2009, 09:26 PM)

I can never seem to adjust my color profile on my monitor so that it looks right, once posted to a photo hosting site.

fast shutter speed and wide aperture > flash, imo
also, i've struggled with color profile issues with websites for quite some time. it turns out, the problem is probably your browser, not your monitor calibration. as it turns out, most browsers do not support color profiles. only safari does out of the box, and firefox 3 does as well, but you have to enable it.
here's a good link describing the issue:
http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/the tldr version is as follows:
in ff3, browse to the following "url": about:config
in the search box, search for gfx.color_management.enabled
by default, it is set to false. set it to true. restart ff to complete the process.