You do of course realize that "correct" flesh tones are a highly subjective matter, right? Flesh tones aren't always the same, they depend greatly on lighting of the scene and many other factors.

The GOUT was scrutinized quite thoroughly here and the analysis shows that while it is very desaturated, the colours can be recovered by boosting saturation but it has boosted reds, so when you use GOUT as a reference, you need to count with there being more red than there should be, so everyone's faces are too red. The lobster faces is something that plagues the 2004 transfer as well, although there it is something more complicated than a simple red boost. Just look at the scene in Ben's hut, they both look as if someone threw a bucketful of red paint in their faces.

Also, I'm not sure where you get this notion of the GOUT being dark, over-all it is definitely brighter than the 2004 transfer and since it is unlikely that any scene by scene adjustments were done to it, the scenes where it is darker than the 04SE can quite safely be assumed to have been darker in the original.