Experts: My HP laptop LCD light is out :-(

Ouch, this is the second laptop this year that its screen went dark - the first one was a DV1000, still in Best Buy's Geeksquad; this DV5000 started emitting pinky light at lower L corner for a few seconds when it was turned on a few days ago. Yesterday the screen light was out completely. I am using an external lcd monitor connected to VGA port so I can continue to work.

Has anyone else had this experience? What is the solution - trash it or fix it?

:-((