Datacolor User to User Support Group.

I am in a very similar situation to the author of the original post
(even down to using Adobe Gamma and a Microsoft colour applet).  I'm
running XP home on a Dell laptop and printing to a Epson r2400 and
have opted for a calibration package, in my case the Spyder 2 Suite,
for similar reasons.  

My laptop has only the brightness/backlight option and, as far as I
can tell, no other tools for altering the display colour so I left
that option blank as I did my first calibration.  

The end result was the same error message. And a sense of bewilderment
at what to do next.

I use Paint Shop Pro X as my graphics program ... the colour workspace
is the same as the one (default) generated by my digital pix (sRGB or
whatever ... not Adobe 1998) ... when I assign the profile created by
CVS2S the resulting rendering of digital images is awful.  Obviously
I've done something wrong ... am just not sure what it is.

Also, I tried the Profile Chooser utility ... by default it shows only
the srgb color space profile (the correct name escapes me) in italics
as the only option ... when I display the full list, the profile
created by CVS2S is there in bold but I'm unable to select it.  Again,
I'm doing something wrong or missing a step but don't know what it is.

Am grateful for the explanation of the Windows error message ... as
you might expect, users tend to think the message is the consequence
of something they've done ... it's nice to know otherwise.

Finally, I'm not quite sure how the profile created by this program
integrates with my camera (a small Coolpix), graphics program and
printer.  Direction regarding this will be welcomed with grace.

Thx,
R.A. Paterson