Ok. Here's the deal.
I sat down to scan the Polaroids I took yesterday and today. I'm shooting color 690 film, 450 land camera, the pictures are turning out nice despite my ham-handedness with the camera.
So, I do the scans on the new scanner, an Epson V350 I recently purchased, and load them up in Lightroom.
As I'm looking over the scans I notice (actually, it's glaring at me!) these white spots everywhere on my scans.
I'd had the same problem with the Polaroid 667 b/w's I'd recently done, too, but at the time I thought the problem was some kind of fluke or something I was doing.
So I look back over the prints, then I look back over the glass on the scanner bed... the prints look good, the glass looks good.
What the heck? Wait, what's this? I see a little spot on the INSIDE of the glass! It's barely noticeable with the light bar inside.
I run the scanner and as the bar runs down the bed, I see spots, yes dozens of SPOTS, inside the scanner on the glass surface.
You have to really look for them, but they're there! And they look like bits of styrofoam or lint... or something, and it's ruining all my scans!!!

Well, I'm not happy, to say the least. So, what now? I can't see any way to open the damned thing. I feel like bashing it with a rock!

Maybe I better find a better scanner...

Oh, I took this on my way home from work tonight. It's been cleaned up, more or less...
I don't think I'll shoot anything else with conventional analog film until I get this scanner thing figured out.