If you don't have access to the images, it will be hard to package them. If the PDF looks good, it means that the images are embedded in the PDF part of the illustrator file. Images are always embedded in PDF. If you open a PDF file that was saved from Illustrator with the "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" option checked, it will open the Illustrator part that may not be able to find the images.
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