Help! Masking techniques for Photoshop

I am relatively new to Photoshop CS2 but I've used other apps before. My question is - if I have a photo with a figure dressed in black on a light background, what is the besttechnique to use if I want to cut the figure out and put her in a backgroun of another colour, maybe a darker colour?
There are 2 issues here:
(1) How to create a near-perfect mask around the figure? I tried using the magic wand, it's very very close but there are one or two places that I am not happy about, such as around the face where the colour value of the face is close to the colour value of the wall.
(2) Since she is on a light baclground to begin with, wearing a black jacket, I get a halo when I put her on a darker background. How can I mask out something like this, and be able to put the figure onto any colour background without the halo effect?
Please help!

Have you tried Extract? Or the Pen? Or Quickmask? These are all ways to make a selection which might be better than what the Wand gives you, or that can be added or subtracted from the Magic Wand selection.
If you have a rough mask you can zoom in and edit it until it fits perfectly. Look at the Channels palette. The mask will be there. You can turn on its visibility while the rest of the image is visible for instance. Masks and Channels are only grayscale images and can be manipulated as such.

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