Is their a free application that will help me adjust my monitor settings. Helps with contrast/brightness/gamma. that type of thing. Something that will help your standard idiot.(me)
Adjusting for correct color is best done with a hardware colorimeter (they start at $60 or so) but you can find premade ICC profiles that may give your monitor more correct color. See the Anandtech MLD Thread, particularly the Calibration section, for more info.