Photos taken with wrong white balance set

I took a lot of outside photos yesterday without checking my settings, got home and of course they are blue, were set to incandescent light. DOH.
My camera only does jpgs.
I've applied a warming photo filter adjustment, (85) and though the image looks a lot better, would appreciate any help with refining further.

Open the JPEGs in Camera RAW and adjust them there. You can batch adjust them in seconds.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSC882A0B5-25E1-447d-8386-B5D60F24AE02.html
Or you can do it in PS as well:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/changewhitebalance.htm

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With the Canon I shoot both video and still and frequently adjust the white balance in the camera. I make a frequent mistake in leaving the wrong white balance setting on - eg when taking video indoors in the evening I set the white balance to indoors (the Canon seems poor at white balance decision making on video) and then I forget I'm not using auto white balance and switch to taking a photo with flash. The result is a horrible blue photo - which if I don't spot the problem at the time seems very hard to correct afterwards.
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Kirkby - thanks for the quick reply.
Didn't know you could drag inside a value field - that's helpful.
But being able to get different numbers on the slider isn't the root of my problem.
In a specific example I have two photos - one taken with white balance set to flash and the photo was with flash, where after a bit of tweaking to get the colour I want the temp slider is at 5000K (and tint 0). The second photo has my shooting error with interior lighting white balance but taken with flash. The two shots were taken from almost the same point of the same view (but different people in frame). The shot with the white balance error comes off camera horribly blue coloured. I can fiddle with the two sliders - I take temperature to 20000K and tint to 40 to do the best with it I can, and with those settings one of the two faces is approaching flesh colour but the wall behind the subjects (which is a light blue in reality) is now appearing light yellow in places. I just can't get a good looking colour effect no matter ow extreme the slider settings.
I may have phrased my question badly - as I totally agree you can't show a raw without a colour setting - so maybe I'm better asking to be able to use a different colour setting on the raw data rather than having to start with adjustments on top of my white balance mistake.
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