Here's the problem. I saw something that I knew my friend would not have left the way I saw it. My guess was that it looked correct to her and this was the case. I saw three overexposed, low contrast images. She did not. If this is a common occurrence, it means that someone may think they know how their image looks online, but could be mistaken.
I'm not an expert on color spaces, but I know that CMYK is quite different from either sRGB or Adobe 1998. I would agree that had she posted the image as CMYK she would have seen something quite unacceptable. What happened was something of the reverse. She saw something that seemed to be good as she viewed it, but was unacceptable when I viewed the same pictures.
I can't come up with any satisfactory explanation as to why she would see a good picture and why I see something quite poor when I go to her site. Any suggestions are most welcome!