Scanned image problems CS4 Mac

I am scanning old slides and negatives and as these have been stored in the tropics many of them are damaged by what could be fungus.
I have tried cleaning them without success and now I am trying to recover them in Photoshop.
There is two main types of damage:
A web of lines that covers the whole picture (See Fig 1)  and isolated cobwebs (See Fig 2)
I have tried Dust and scratch filter but this destroys the detail.
Has anyone got any suggestions for a way to minimise the damage?

bortu wrote:
…how to activate ICE within VUScan.
…but I doubt it will help with the kind of damage you have. 
Wo Tai Lao Le
我太老了

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