Help with a scanning problem - surface reflections on a photo

I'm back at home for a bit, and I'm trying to help my parents scan an old photo when I'm here. I've never done all that much photo scanning, and I've found a problem that has me stumped. So I turn to you, the internet... (more specifically, my friends on the internet, but strangers and enemies are welcome to reply too)

Here's a flickr post with a portion of the scan, to get you started:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cflake/155311298/

...and the real photo, if I can get it to work:


The photo doesn't have those white spots when you look it it normally, but when I use a 10x loupe and have the light at the correct angle, I see reflections as well. I haven't had much luck removing the "noise" with Photoshop (v7), so I'm looking for other ideas.

There's a small corner of my mind that thinks the reflections would go away if I turned the photo 90º and re-scanned, but the rest of me doubts that would work.

I could take a digital macro shot of the picture, but then I have to deal with shadows, any warping of the paper, and DPI conversions that I don't want to think about.

One forum post on the web said that wrapping the photo in good quality plastic wrap would eliminate some of the glare... but that was just one guy on some random forum.

The closest match that I've found on the net is this part of the FAQ in scantips.com:
http://www.scantips.com/faq2.html#moire

...which tells me: 1. I'm screwed, and 2. try the digital thing I mentioned before.

Has anyone else had to deal with this? Any good ideas?

Leaked

It has happened - the secret information has gotten out...

My parents know that I have a blog.

When I mentioned this to someone, their response was:

"Well, at least you don't write anything interesting..."
(it was said in the nicest way possible)

And we both laughed, because it's true on a number of levels...

Ecto problems on Intel? (not anymore!)

I've been having trouble posting with Ecto on my Intel machine.... I've moved all of my account information and started over, so hopefully this will work...

(update) And it seems to be fine - hooray!

So much spam

Sometime back in January I got tired of manually filtering all of my mac.com spam messages and I turned on Mail's auto filtering. The number of messages keeps climbing though, and it looks like I've got 325 for the past month. An unfortunate side effect is that I no longer take the time to report these spams back to mac.com, so I'm not really helping the "greater good". If anyone has a script that automates forwarding a junk email to the spam address, let me know... I suppose I could file a bug/feature request too...

Of course the mac.com number that isn't even close to the 679 from my main gmail account in less than a month. That's what I get for listing it on the web, I guess.

Strangely enough, the gmail address on my VDLMidi page doesn't have any spam...

My numbers are small compared to people that own servers, but it's still a hassle. And don't even get me started on all the crap I get in the mail... I need to call the number from an entry that Travis did... of course the link won't work unless you're one of his friends. The rest of you get to suffer with all your extra credit card offers.

It pays to know Travis.

I'll remember April

It appears I didn't post at all last month, which seems odd because I wasn't teaching and should have had more time...

I've got Vegas photos and other things coming, so make sure you are subscribed to my feedburner feed (somewhere in the links on the right), which includes things I post to flickr and del.icio.us (which is about the only thing that has been getting content recently).

More later.