craftgrrl | Scrapbook/Photobook Help

I have a coworker that found out that I was crafty, because I was discussing the veil thing with the coworker I spoke of earlier. Coworker number 2, we'll call her C2, asked if I could help her with her problem. It's a photoalbum/scrapbook problem, and I'm so stumped that I'm coming to you guys to see if there's anything that can be done other than my first idea.

Issue: When she was very young she was given a photobook/scrapbook and some of her own pictures. She was allowed to do whatever she want with it. She was at an age where, well, one doesn't quite think things through. She glued the photographs to each page with, get this, maple syrup. Yes, no joke.

She is obviously older now. The syrup is starting to chemically react to the photo paper or the book paper or something. She described it as the photographs starting to "melt" and made a gesture like she was trying to pull them off of the paper, so I assume that means that if she tries to disconnect them they start melting/discinigrating.

Once I finish the veil, I'm going to ask her to bring them in so I can try to help her with it. This is the only thing I could think of to do:

Keep the pictures ON the book. Scan the pages in high quality. Use Photoshop7, which I have, to crop the images and bring them down to their original size, and try to fix any quality errors made from the maple syrup, though I probably won't do much of the latter as I'm not too great with Photoshop. Then I'd burn those to a CD, take them to Walmart, and have them printed up. From there I'll just start fresh, get her or make her a new scrapbook, and mount them in the book correctly.

Is there anything at all I can do to salvage the originals, or is my idea really the best one out there?