IPhoto & old slides

Hi guys,
Hopefully this is the best place for this question; asking Hewitt Packard has been non-productive.
In scanning old slides, (some of them 40yrs +) the scanner won't recognize roughly 1 out of 5. I'm guessing this is due to deterioration of the slide over time. Was just hoping some of you have some experience with scanning old slides and could suggest a workaround for this problem, assuming one exists.
I know this is probably more specific to the scanner than the computer, but if there's a solution, I know I can find it here. Thanks in advance.
Mark

Hi (^_^),
Thanks for responding! As impressed as I am with OS X, I hated to go third party. But XAAMP is some pretty good stuff.
The scanner is a right-out-of-the-box 4890; a most impressive unit. Does 16 slides at one time (well, individually in one action). Really like the thing.
Here's what I'm doing:
In the HP image zone box, choose Applications.
In the drop down, for Source, choose 'Slides from TMA'.
For Destination, choose your app; (FANTASTIC FEATURE!) in this case, iPhoto.
Click 'New Scan'.
4890 will preview the slides and encircle with a dotted line the ones that "it likes"; it will ignore the ones it doesn't.
When you examine the slides it ignores, they really don't look much different to the eye than the ones that it accepts.
The 'Accept (?)' button will tell you the number that it will scan, (case you don't feel like counting) and you can change out the ones that have been denied, as the screen will indicate their position in the slide template that you have placed in the scanner.
Therein lies the foundation of the question: What does 4890 see that I don't? Knowing nothing about negatives, I don't know what direction to take for a workaround, if there is one. (Naturally, Murphy sticks his nose into the mix and tells 4890 to ignore your most valued slides! lol)

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