As I use a CRT monitor (ViewSonic P225f 21") there is not much calibration to be done. I use Ps-CS3 but calibrate to gamma 2,5 with Ps7-Adobe-Gamma and the www.aim-dtp.net calibration chart.
My monitor (with Ps-CS3 proof colors on) match my prints exact. So there is no calibraion problems. The blue blacks are just as blue on the monitor (with proof colors on) as on the prints.
I think Gamma 1,5 works OK for me. Gamma was lower some years ago.
Before "the PC boom". But I have always used PC.
You are seriously ignorant of many of the basics of color management.
1. CRT monitors are the least reliable color devices. Not only do they have the most unit-to-unit variation, but they gradually change their color characteristics over time as the phosphors age.
2. You are NOT calibrating a monitor unless you measure the colors it produces with a hardware device, such as a colorimeter, or better yet, a spectrophotometer. If you believe otherwise, you are seriously deluding yourself.
3. The fact that one particular pair of monitor and printer profiles happen to give a good color match is meaningless. In a properly color-managed environment, ALL monitor and printer profile combinations will give good color match results. The fact that some profiles match and others don't is a giant red flag that you're doing something wrong.
4. Your usage of non-standard gamma values is ignorant and counter-productive. All current monitors have a native gamma in the vicinity of 2.2. Using display profile gamma values that deviate significantly from the display's native gamma increase the degree to which RGB values are manipulated when being converted from the working profile to the monitor profile. This increases the probability that the profile conversion (necessary for color managed display) will result in posterization and banding of the displayed image. Unless you have measured your display with a spectrophotometer or colorimeter and have found its gamma to deviate from the norm, use gamma 2.2 when calibrating, not 2.7. Using a modified-gamma 1.5 version of Adobe RGB as an editing space just makes the problem worse--the difference between editing profile gamma and monitor profile gamma is even greater. You're shooting yourself in the foot by doing this.