The homebrew LCD hack didn't work, but it wasn't for lack of trying. My backyard repair dude rewired and replaced one old broken set of fluorescent tubes with old working (?) ones with some brilliant desoldering/resoldering skills and only charged me 80 baht, and I managed to get the monitor back together again without even having extra screws left over afterward, but it was all for naught. Sometimes you jess gotta say SHEEEEIT Clay Davis style. SHEEEEEIT!
Anyway, I'll get around to taking new photos of Max the Destroyer and posting them from my laptop I guess; sorry it's taking so long but I'm busy, busy, busy, and hate downloading photos to anything but my redundant archives (main PC) first.
Good Luck with that! I miss seeing you guys and hope all is well!