They are plate mounted switches, so that means you do have to de-solder them on the back, pop them out the front, then you can open each switch to clean them. As long as you carefully pry/pop them out, you won't damage the switches or your keyboard.
Since they all register when pressed, there is nothing electrically wrong with the board, you just have sugary syrup inside the switches and the way a cherry blue switch works, there's a "slider on a slider" inside that clicks so if it's gummed up you won't get a click and it won't slide as smoothly.
Look at this incredible
animation of a Cherry MX Blue switch, the white and blue parts (and switch housing) are gummed up and just need to be cleaned, but it takes some work to get to it.
I think you should try to it yourself. It will be very rewarding learning experience. Get a soldering iron, some solder and some desoldering wick from radioshack and just go for it. Here's a good video of what you need to do, but you'll be opening the switches and cleaning them.
Next time spill diet instead, it's not sticky.