Mike, 2 things. First, would you trim the excess text off your posts? As is, one post of your includes about 4-5 screens of additional text that must be scrolled through to get to the next post. Those who are replying to you also include this excess text so there's a lot of scrolling taking place. This might only be an issue for those of us who read the forum via the "daily digest" method; there's a bunch of us.
Your comments about the lack of controls on the Mac monitor make me think that they rely on the colorimiter's software to set the contrast and brightness. With a Munki Photo colorimeter there are two methods for setting up a monitor, the easy and advanced methods. The easy method uses their software to adjust these settings behind the curtain while the advanced method has one physically interact with the monitor to manipulate some of the controls before the software takes over. I've tried both methods with the Munki Photo and, if one sets the advanced manual controls to the Munki recommended defaults, e.g., 125 candelas, both methods provide profiles that look the same on screen.