Editing Speed bump

I’ve ran into a PPing speed bump. I took this picture of my fiancee and I really like it, I like the hair on her face and the overall look. However the image needs some help with color and lighting to start with.

The specific part I’m having a problem with is the sun filled hair. For starters there’s some clipping going on and every time I try to mess with color or lighting things go south and the image starts to look really bad.

How would you guys handle this editing.
BTW I'm using CS5 and lightroom

Here’s the image in question.

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Since the sunlit hair is not entirely blown out a certain amount of recovery can be done even from the posted jpg (my humble effort below). However, if you can make available a RAW, much more can be done.

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