[Chris Saper]

Oh, yum, Mike these photos are like a candy shop! I'm not sure I am following your question about the bright yellow/gold/red - but in Photoshop CS, there is a feature under Image - Adjust -Photo filter.

You can choose a cool or warm filter which will give the overall image a hue shift that does approximate a change in Kelvin temp. However, when you shoot RAW imag, Nikon has a program called - (I forget, I'll look it up for you) which allows you go into a RAW image and change the white point after the fact. Is that cool or what?

Combined with using your level adjustments and other features, I think you may be able to turn that image into a great one. Personally, I never mind painting from a good black and white, in fact I think it's better to have no color at all than to continually fight bad color.