Removing intense light reflection on a B&W portrait image

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me.
I have a B&W image of a very closely cropped man's face. The image is fine apart from a very intense light reflection on one side of his forehead which I would like to remove. I have tried cloning and also burning but both look like obvious manipulation of the image. I think the best I am going to achieve is to tone it down slightly. I also have a slight light reflection on the end of his nose but the burn tool worked perfectly for this.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I could do about the light reflection on the forehead please?
BTW, I am using PSE6 with Windows.
Cheers
Sue

All I can say Terri is "WOW".
Thank you so much for making such an amazing effort and also giving step by step instructions on how to do it. This will be incredibly helpful to me with this image and many more as I can apply the principle of what you've said in so many other ways.
I didn't realise until I signed onto the Adobe forum again today how detailed your answer was, as the email notification I got on Saturday did not show anywhere near the content of your posting which seems a little strange to me. Oh well.
Your knowledge of PSE is clearly way beyond mine and I may not be able to follow your instructions exactly but I will certainly give it a go. Have only been using PSE6 for 9 weeks as part of my university assignment in digital photography. I've always loved photography but have never, before 9 weeks ago, used a digital darkroom before. Must admit, I am loving it as you really can improve images so much.
I have asked Mark Sand in my previous posting to let me know how to download the images you and him have saved to pixentral.com as currently I don't seem to be able to do this.
Thanks also for saying you like the picture. Its always nice to know someone else likes your images.
Thanks again
Sue

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