In reply to mudmonkey5:
You don't say what kind of monitor you're using. Is it a laptop built-in monitor or an external one? Presumably it's LCD, what kind of LCD? Some of the cheaper ones (such as on my laptop) have very poor (narrow) viewing angles so you're never sure what the correct viewing angle is, hence why I use a more expensive external monitor for my photo processing. I've calibrated this with a spider-type device (with good results) but haven't bothered calibrating the laptop monitor.
Also, are you using windows, Mac, Linux, etc.?
Anthony