How to fix photo of person with too much reflection?

Hey everybody,
I have a picture of this person (wouldn't let me post their pic) that I'm trying to adjust in photoshop. It seems that the camera was a bit too close to the face and where the flash is reflected, there is a huge white area surrounded by lots of yellow and red (digital cam, btw). I'm finding it hard to adjust with levels and curves and such. Is there another way to target this shiny area of the face and tone down the brightness?
thanks.
tigrvision

To remove facial shinyness/reflections..... About the only way is to use the clone stamp (if you're using PS6 or below), or use the new healing brush and patch tools in PS7.

The pixel information on the image is probably not just color artifacting, but real pixel junk that will have to be physically erased off the image.

I cant really answer your question here as you provide nothing concrete to go on (I know you are respecting wishes and cant) try the folks over at www.retouchpro.com you wont get better advise anywhere on any aspect of retouching

Thanks mrb and thehermit. I'll try both your suggestions.
tigrvision