Update, being typed on the broken laptop.

I have the week off and decided to take the ten minutes a day working on it advice given earlier. I cleaned off the table and picked up the basement room and got mentally ready.

But first, I took it in to the geek squad dept at the local stationary store and asked them to check it one more time. Yeah, that jack looks loose, it shouldn't move like that, let me plug it in with your power supply - nothing - let me plug it in with the store's power supply - hmmm, powers up fine. I bought a universal power supply and am back in operation.