I've got three LCD monitors, the color looks horrible on all of them
when I view photos taken with my digital camera.   Meanwhile, the LCD
monitor on my cheapo Twinhead laptop shows the colors perfectly.

Here is what I have
19" samsung syncmaster 915n (on sale with rebate buy.com $250)
17" hyundai Imagequest L70S
15" KD5, 4 years old

The reds are WAY too hot, faces and skintones are too dark and orange
looking, shadows are WAY too dark and the overall noise level is
off-the-hook.   Meanwhile, this $1000 twinhead laptop shows the
pictures perfectly, just as I remember the scene with my own eyes,
perfect skin tones, perfect reds, low noise, shadow areas very bright.
 I do the comparison with the monitors plugged into the VGA output on
the laptop and both screens going at once to rule out differences in
the display adaptor.

I've studied color profiling, look-up-tables, gamma.  tried using all
the techniques suggested on http://www.normankoren.com.   downloaded
quickgamma.   nothing seems to work.  I've studied the manuals on the
monitors.  none of them have a color temperature control.  I think that
might be part of the problem.  the white point is not right.  it is
probably set to 9300K, and i should have it set to 6500K.   I've read
that the monitor color temperature control can be set in software if
there is no hardware setting.

Here are my questions

1.  Would I be able to salvage use of my LCD monitors with a better
graphics adaptor in my desktop systems ?  one that had better drivers
that would allow me to set color temperature ?

2.  If I need to purchase a better LCD monitor, can I hear some
recommendations for a good 19inch to use with digital photography ?  I
plan to purchase some high-megapixel canon digital SLRs and I want a
good monitor to use for editing.  

thanks