More at http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html
This is a really weird problem and I don't know how to fix it.
Let's take this random profile for example: http://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/12280484/
When I view it using Firefox or Chrome, it looks like this: http://i40.tinypic.com/k4doxy.png
For the sake of comparison, you will notice that the image is lighter than the background color.
When I view it using Internet Explorer, it looks like this: http://oi39.tinypic.com/2ch99h4.jpg
In this one, you can see that the image is in correct color, and it actually matched the coded background color.
So what's up with that? Why does FF and Chrome make the image lighter?

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