I see her poor test performance and the cheating as two seperate things.
Even without the cheaters, she fully admits she bombed the test. She was already leaning toward talking to the prof anyway, then the cheaters came into the picture.
If you don't want to report the cheaters anonymously (and I would definitely report them...stuff like that ticks me off.) then I'd immediately tell the prof that you have 2 things to discuss. You can fully admit that you blanked on the test and you know you answered the questions poorly, etc. Talk through that entire situation and come to a conclusion on it. Then when that conversation is over and resolved and the prof asks what the second thing was...mention the cheaters. Now, only you know how to bring this up. In one of your posts you said
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I guess it would be pretty easy to cheat on those tests, because the way one of the cheaters explained to me, the prof doesn't check our stack of paper that we bring in to write on.. so he hid notes in his stack.
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To me that isn't heresay...if someone admitted to you that they cheated, that's all you need in order to report it. You can discuss what others told you as well, but that is heresay (I guess). I wouldn't say a word about how the cheaters messed up the curve for you and everyone else, etc. Focus on their action and how it is a violation of the honor code. By doing that, you have less of a chance looking like you're trying to use excuses for your poor performance.
Of course, you have no control over how the prof reacts, or whether he thinks you're using the cheaters as an excuse. But it's your conscience you have to live with, so do what you want to do in order to be comfortable with yourself.
Let us know what happens.
PsychTau