Hi all,
Thanks for all your responses. You are all right about suggesting a new logo, but as seedism said, some people get emotionally attached to their logos. In this case he already had it printed on his van too so I was pretty much stuck...
I went down KCooper's route and Photoshopped it a little bit and shined up that turd as nice as I could, but it still looked awful.
MrTim - I hadn't started the website until I saw it, and when I did 'Inspiration' was the last thing it gave me!!
That said, I sent the designs off today feeling like the "Send email" button was essentially an "End career" button. An hour later the client emailed back saying they liked them...