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[Spyke]

1, Wash the whole thing with bleach, diluted with water.
2, Fill the wholes with a white, sikaflex/silastic, (its waterproof)
3, Forget the lino, Melamine is waterproof anyway.
4, Forget about painting it, it should come up pretty good with the bleach/water.

hint, metho or turps, should get the tape residue, and pink stain off.........Seal all the joins/seams with the silastik/sikaflex


Edit: forgot to ad that this is what I would do, if you still want to do it another way, it is upto you.

Cheers, Spyke