Display problem, new motherboard.

I am posting really to vent. I have a sick iMac with display problems. It's got vertical white lines and loss of colors. ChumpUSA indicates that the motherboard will need to be replaced and it's going to take four to five business days to get the part.
I purchased the iMac for a client who I encouraged to switch. They trust me and have purchased two other Macs. They are doing fine, so they aren't soured yet. It's a difficult position in which to find myself. Computers have trouble and need to be fixed, knock wood, I've had very few hardware problems in my 10+ years using Apple products.
I'm just in a bad spot with the failure of the motherboard (poor quality?) and the length of time my client is without a computer for one of his employees.
We will work around it, of course. I just don't see why it would take a week to get a part.
Any advise or words of encouragement are appreciated.

Sorted myself but will post solution in case others need it.
Remembered what I had done ages ago when looking at how to stop all recent pages appearing on a new tab.
To get new SEARCHES appearing in a new tab go to address bar and type
about:config.................ignore the Dragons
then go to browser:search:openintab and set to true

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