InDesign Automation - Placing yearbook photos & text

Hi,
I'm new to InDeisgn and am currently working on a project that requires me to change out an InDesign CS3 file of a yearbook page to the most current students and their names.
What is the best way to switch out the old photos with the new ones, in the correct order (alphabetical), and change the names under each photo?
Any way to automate this without scripting? I know the hard way would be to go in and replace each photo manually and change each text manually, but there are a lot of photos. There has to be an easier way.
I've attached a thumb of the layout for reference (blurred for obvious reasons)
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
-Jeff

How about just setting up a grid based on the current page, and use the indesign contact sheet built in thing that it does?
Not really automatic, you have to do each page manually.
I thought of Data Merge, but then linking all the names with the path then doing the merge. I guess it would be faster, if not a hassle to setup at first. And that Spreadsheet would need to be updated everyyear.
So perhaps a naming convention would suit better.
Name the photos Year_1_Alphaname, Year_2_Alphaname etc. or something and then those pictures are named the same every year.
Either way, it will be a sort of manual setup this year until you get a workflow that you can use year in year out (pun completely intended).
Back in the day it was a 2 man job for months of work, scanning, naming, laying out images and text. Sigh. The hard days are being replaced by computers and machines. Even yearbooks need to be turned around in a few weeks rather than a few months.

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