Personally, me thinks you shouldn't calibrate your monitor based on other peoples settings. I just installed XP today (UUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!), and I have yet to be able to get proper drivers for my monitor (stupid 800x600...). Best way to do it, is to print out the pic on whatever printer you will use for final cut prinouts, and adjust your monitor so the colours on the print out match the colours on screen. A good way to do it is with Pantone colour values. You can get a Pantone colour booklet if you look around, and its the best way to compare printouts with on screen colours (the colours are set to values, so you can pretty much pick out a pixel, and set what value it should be, which should adjust all other colours). Essentialy, just print out a bunch of block colours to work with the Pantone set, and work in CMYK as much as you can (some filters and such are incompatible with CMYK, but on final TIF saves, its nice to convert, and then adjust the colours after the save). Also, for room lighting, try and work with "Natural Lighting" lights (which can cost blinb bling), or at least subdued lighting. Before doing any calibrations or graphics work, let the monitor be on for about a half hour so it warms up complete (half hour's a while, but best to be sure). Also, when saving to JPEG, I find that the colours change a bit for me, more contrasty lookin'. Work with TIF and PSD when adjusting colours and comparing. XP is annoying isnt it? Took me and a friend several hours just to get a third HD working, never mind the rest of the hardware. I've lost my second monitor entirely, the master monitor doesn't have proper drivers (its Plug and Play at the moment, ick), and I'm a lil'scared to plug in my Wacom, Zip drive, and printer tonight.. On the upside, I got to format all my HDs (RAWK!), which is a blessing. I can no longer classify this puter as a Compaq, aside for some parts, and the casing (which is lookin' mighty funny at the moment). I'm running on a 380mhz, with 128 ram, which is definitely stretching it for XP, but heck, I've read up on people who have WIN ME installed on 486ers for god;'s sake (you can find a blurb about that somewhere on cnet.com), so once I tweak it all up, it should juice. Hope this helps man, though i didn't give you any answer whatsoever. ry