Ah! Well, I'm not sure whether people who get their photos restored on here do get them conserved in real life...I suspect some do, depending on whether they think it's worthwhile. Like you, some of them have photos that are pretty damaged - stuck to the picture-frame glass etc. - and need to be "helped" before or as well as having digital restoration done. Most people with photos that are not affected like this are happy to have a digital restoration to restore original colour/contrast etc., and just to store the originals carefully to ensure long-term preservation.
I'm not sure what you mean about the tape problem you're having...do you mean that there is tape on the surface of some photos, and the sticky part is oozing out at the sides of the tape and causing facing pages/pictures to stick to it?
What sort of photos are they? Are they black and white, 'sepia', colour...? I might be able to give you some help to remove the goo if I can get an idea. Any possibility of posting a digital piccie of one of the affected photos so I can see the problem? Keen to help if I can 
Cheers
Prue
My pictures are not that damaged. They are in good shape in general, and only some of them have small areas of tape damage in various places. The main problem is all of the tape around the edges. I have a number of pictures which were taped into scrapbooks, first with the bad kind of tape, and then, in some cases, with the good kind of tape. Some pictures have only been taped with one of kind of tape.
The good kind of tape just has to be removed from the pictures, but the bad kind of tape, where it has come off of the pictures, has left a considerable amount of residue. In some cases, that residue has gotten a little beyond the edges of the tape (whether or not the tape is still stuck to the picture). The problem with facing pictures is sometimes caused by residue, but it is usually caused by the plastic in the tape sticking to facing pictures. Of course, that can only be fixed by carefully removing the pieces of the pictures from the tape, and then gluing them onto the pictures.
Most of the pictures are black and white, although there is a little of everything. I am hesitant to scan the pictures, because I do not want to get any gunk on the scanner glass. The tape residue is not sticky, but still... I think that I will have to try to take some pictures with a good camera. A scanner would be better, but I hope that a good camera will be good enough.
I really appreciate your help, and will get back to you with some images as soon as I can.
