Spilled water on iBook

Glass of water was dumped on my iBook G4. It booted up okay, but problem seems to be that the power input won't recognize the AC adapter. Any ideas (ballpark) how much this would cost to fix?
Also, when I was using it before the AC adapter started to fizzle, my arrow froze up. The trackpad wouldn't work, but an external mouse would. Do I need to fear greater water damage?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt

Hey RevMD,
Here's an earlier post of mine:
"Here's a mod of an earlier post of mine.
"Whenever any liquid/water is spilled on the iBook especially in the keyboard area which affords a direct path to the mother board, all power should be immediately removed from the iBook. In fact I might go so far as to say you should immediately pull the power plug and remove the battery, crashing the computer, because that would be better than causing an electrical problem on the logic board.
In other words:
Crashing iBook - worst case scenerio - corrupted system - reinstall software
probability ~ 5%
Water on the board - worst case scenerio - damaged logic board replacement cost
$300 depending on model plus labor - probability - 80%.
So once all power is off the computer it will have to be completely disassembled down to the board level and all parts will have to be inspected for signs of water. Even the tiniest drop will cause disaster. This would be especially true in the area of and under the larger LSI chips and surface mount chips. These sit very low to the board and can wick water underneath them very easily. In the case of the graphics chip, CPU chips which are ball grid mounted, there are hundreds of connections under these chips, separated by less that 1 mm. Water wicking into that area would need to be blown out with compressed air and then the board should be placed in a drying oven.
It could still take weeks or months to dry out naturally."
Keeping power on the computer, i.e. plugged in or battery in even if it's off, will cause a rapid erosion of the wet traces on the logic board via electolytic action. Some of these traces are .1 mm wide or less, so you can see that erosion of a trace that tiny will happen very quickly.
Richard

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