Dangit!
I just pulled out my laptop for school, just to find that the screen turned on, but the backlight won't turn on.
It's all zappy, and when I take off a cover and unplug and re-plug in the display, it gets all zappy and trys to turn on, but fails.
At least I can still sort-of see it (and post here).
At least this gives me a good excuse to get a new laptop.