Slide scanning problem

Hi all.
I have a slide talk which I have given many, many times. I bought iWork so that I could digitize it. I apologize for being off topic here, but some of the slides come out beautifully and some are amazingly washed out. The slides themselves don't look all that bad, in fact some of these look quite nice.
Any ideas on how to correct this washing out of some images?
Underlying this problem is that I will never be able to replace many of these images, so I have to make these slides work.
Again, sorry for being off topic...but it's kind of related, I hope.
I'm using a Cannon 8400f scanner and Photoshop elements.
Thanks!

Are you paying close attention to make sure you're color-correcting all of your images the same way? The first thing I'd do is take two of the images that show the widest range of quality and go through your steps again to make sure that some color setting isn't throwing you off.

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