yeah, I'm on the same page as Ira Garcia. In a little more detail, here's what I think you need to do:
1. Use a curve tool (on an adjustment layer, not directly) and pull up the highlights and pull down the darks. The curve will look like an 'S' turned 90 degrees right. Play with this a little till you get the contrast right. This will also give you some saturation.
2. Add saturation (again, adjustment layer not directly) to taste.
3. Group the Sat and Curve to your base image.
3. Now to get the glow: Copy these three layers (curve, sat, and original image) to make a second group on top of the first three. in this second group, set the base layer to 'screen'. Now play with the curve in this second group. Bring the darks WAY down. Now add a little blur to the base image of the second group, just a little! Then bring the opacity pretty far down.
4. Now above everything throw on a little color correction. Everyone does this differently, and you may want to treat different areas of the image differently. But some basic tools to play with: Curve tool's Reg, Green, and Blue layers. Photo filters. Use an image over itself and set it to 'overlay', then vary opacity. I don't know. From here you have to play around to taste.
Good luck!