i must have calibrated my sony broadcast monitor the wrong way because even though computer lcd monitors are definitely not reliable the whites are waay too whie on my lcd screen while it looks perfect on the broadcast monitor.
any tricks you might suggest. i'm new to color correction so my knowledge in the field is limited.

thanks

Use your scopes to see if they are all legal. I just replied to your other thread that you can get good simple calibration advice from the FCP manual - and in fact it has a whole chapter on colour correction that you might find really useful.

Getting to know your scopes is very important for CC.

i did read the calibrating part in the manual but strangely in the beginning instead of having three little grey bars on the bottom right corner i get black ones, and they're all the same color... i didn't expect this calibrating part to be such a hard time... stress me out!

The grey bars - pluge bars - are actually shades of black. Slightly darker than black, 'real' black, and slightly lighter than black. This is quite hard to pick, and there shouldn't really be a glaring difference between them anyway.

Don't worry about how it looks on your computer. Stay with what it looks like on the (correctly calibrated) broadcast monitor. Again, use your scopes to check for legal.

A good tool in fcp is the Range Check - both for colour and luminance. Turn this on and you will immediately know that you are legal. As soon as you get a warning, use the CC tools to adjust until you get legal again.

It might help you to get some training or a book or a DVD on colour correction - it's really a very specialised thing and can be a nightmare if you feel unsure of what you are doing. You might want to also get someone in to calibrate your monitor so that you can feel secure that what you are looking at is correct. Make him or her give you a calibrartion lesson while they're there so you only need to hire them once!