Erasing dust spots

besides the spot and patch tool, is there any other way to remove dust spots from images in Aperture (or iPhoto)? i recall seeing a demo of Nikon's Capture NX, and that program had a feature that let you shoot an image of a white background, and then you could use that image to identify where dust spots were and use that to remove the dust spots from images.
i have not found anything in Aperture that does this, and the spot and patch tool is a little harder to use than the touch up tool in iPhoto.
have some nice shots of a sunrise on mountain, but unknown to me at the time, i had a big dust spot right in the middle of the mountain. using the touchup tool in iPhoto just results in the nice detail of the mountain getting all fuzzy.

thanks, that's what i was afraid of.
spent extra $ to get Aperture, thinking it would be more useful than iPhoto, and figured Aperture would be as useful as Capture NX from Nikon. if i had known all this, i would have thought twice about spending extra $ for Aperture.
don't have photoshop, no idea how to use it.
and the kicker is, by the time i discovered i had a huge dust spot on my CCD, and could get a white background to shoot, the dust spot had moved/disappeared.
guess my nice shot of the Tetons at sunrise will have a little blemish.

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