"why is red such an awful color to get right on the grid?? Do I need to adjust my screen or something...?? "

it might not just be red (although i am colorblind, so what do i know? ha!) ... i think that there are occasionally mismatches in colors due to photoshop (or other software?) and the way they internally represent colorspaces, or store jpegs or *something* like that.

the more industrious readers will dig through the daunting gridcosm discussion archives and find the posts about this. heh heh but thats not me, to be sure.