Scanner : Any Tips On Scanning Gold?

Bob de Diego,
You should be able to adjust the color balance in software. Unfortunately, the same thing applies about not scanning directly to JPEG. For good images, you need to do the adjustment before converting to JPEG (and losing details). The default settings in the scanner's JPEG engine may not do a good job, and can't get everything right for every image. Your scanner probably came with software to do basic image correction. Mine allows auto-correct, resize, lighten / darken, sharpen, color adjustment, mirror, invert & resolution. You're better off just scanning to a bitmap or other raw format and doing the conversion in more capable software. I'm not too familiar with scanners, but this is typical of what happens with cameras, even those with really good JPEG processors. The default scan to JPEG may be good enough for some things, but if you want a better job, you do need to do some more work.

Bob,
one good trick with scanners, is to "reset defaults"
this can get you back to decent images again.
My Epson Perfection V200 often goes out of whack
when I scan something out of the ordinary.

I have all my defaults listed in "Settings" 1,2 & 3
and hit the appropriate setting each time I boot the
scanner.

eg setting1 is for default settings, full platten at 600dpi etc.