How well did you do otherwise with the clone tool?
If it was going well apart from the hair, then I would zoom in, and use the select tool, (magic wand probably in CS2, I tend to use, 12 or 32 for the tolerance value). Select your husband's hair, hold down shift with each click, it adds to the selection.
If you hit the wrong thing, hold down ALT, and click to remove a selection.
Once you think you have a decent area of the hair selected around the pole, press Ctrl-Shift-C, then Ctrl-V (or if on a Mac, Command, instead of control).
[Personally, I would now go to, select, reselect, and then do select->save selection]
This will copy the hair, and paste it into a new layer. Now, click the 'eye' next to the layer to disappear it.
Select the background layer again.
Do the cloning, and don't worry if the hair gets messed up.
Once you have finished cloning, click the 'eye' again, and the hair will pop back in.
Now, if the hair looks a little strange when it is back in, go to the select->load selection when you have the second layer selected, then select->modify->feather and enter perhaps 5.
This will suck in the selection around the hair, then push it back out again in a 'fuzzy' sort of way. This makes selections look slightly less sharp For larger objects, I would use larger values, but the hair you have is quite fine.
Now do, select->inverse, and press the delete button. This should remove any straggling hair.
Press Ctrl-D to remove the outline of the selection tool
Will post results when I've finished (or given up).