There's a hole in my backlight, dear Liza

"We have found that when a laptop LCD screen is dim the majority of the time it is a result of a faulty inverter. Unfortunately, the best way to determine which is the cause of the dim screen is through process of elimination by trying either a new LCD screen or a new inverter and seeing which solves the problem. We highly recommend you purchase an inverter first as inverters are less expensive than LCD screens. LCDs4Less does not carry inverters, however, we would be more than happy to refer you somewhere."

The backlighting on my laptop is not working properly - whenever the laptop goes into conserve energy mode, and switches the screen off, it refuses to wake itself back up again. I hope this isn't going to cost me too much money. For now though, I've set up a second monitor, with much thanks to Matt.