Colors in Photoshop (and Illustrator) are really off.

the biggest thing i noticed was that my greys were more brown than anything.  I've included a sample pic that might show better the things i'm referring to.

so in the color selector dialog, the whole left side (white to black) is all tinted brown, like a sepia. this occurs in both Photoshop CC 64 and Illustrator CC.  other applications like Paint.net, regular Paint, and GIMP show the normal white to black gradation with all the normal greys, so i know the monitor is displaying fine.  i assume it's a color profile that i have to set or adjust somewhere, but the weird thing is that in Illustrator's color selection dialog, the square preview swatch of the color seems accurate and does NOT match what i see in the actual color "wheel".  In Photoshop, the square swatch DOES match the color wheel, and both are incorrect.  and weird, uploading the image to the forum here, the colors are equally screwed up (EDIT: once i hit "post" the posted images shows the blue color like it should).  i'm going to try hosting this somewhere else and linking to it.

maybe someone could just check out the color 4252e8 and see if it's a periwinkle-type blue or a plumb-y purple.