Oh, no, Freezie. *Dark* charcoal grey is even worse. I hate to tell you what that means, but your monitor is probably about gone. :( That is exactly what happened a couple of years ago to mine - I thought everyone else was seeing things when they told me about some of my *colors*! LOL. Every dark color, to me, was BLACK or almost black! It was a wake-up call when Aqua said something about a pretty 'green' color, that was 'rust' to me. I asked others then what color they saw - there was only one other 'rust' answer - the rest were green. I bought a new monitor, and HATED it because all my graphics that I had 'fixed' so perfectly for me were WAY TOO LIGHT!!! I started making every one of them darker! LOL! jkphoto came to the rescue and told me to STOP!!! (Neither Lori nor Louie had the heart to tell me!)
Anyway, Dolly, I'm telling you all this because Lori's husband helped me get it calibrated, and I've loved it ever since!
Billie, please don't say that about the monitor - I just got a new one and I'm seeing the same thing Freezie is.