Beating a DEAD PB, can we get creative?

I am desperately trying to avoid a visit to the Genius Bar with my 15" (which I have nicely passed on to my husband after I purchased my new 17").
Anyway, the scenerio is this:
My daughter and her friends were using it to watch a dvd in the evening. The next time I saw it, she brought it downstairs and said it was making a funny noise and the light was blinking weird.
I noticed the strange noise, but also noticed the backlight of the keyboard was flickering with the open key in the front. I also noticed the "caps lock" key was stuck on green.
I couldn't shut it down or eject the disk. Trust me I have tried most things here and in the course of the day I got rid of the sound (hopefully not killing the hd in total), but although the battery is fine and fully charged and the adapter glows while inserted. I now get no response including any noise.
Is there a way to boot this remotely through firewire, or to see if it can start? I really want to run a hardware test, but I do have a dvd still stuck in there. I know this is grasping for straws, but that is what I want to do. How can I test this before I take it in? SInce I doubt I would pay to have it fixed should I take it apart? The ram is/was fine.
Remember there are NO bad ideas...
Thanks! Hohoho... he as a brand new iPod from santa that need this 15" for iTunes.
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.7)  

Hi, Elizabeth -
I'm not really clear about whether this machine is on or off, but you should be able to shut it down by pressing the power button for 5-10 seconds. Also, Command-Option-Shift-Power will force the machine to shut down.
You can try booting the machine into target disk mode by connecting it to your 17" PB via FW cable. With the 17" on, try to start the 15" holding down the T key after you press the power button. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
If the 15's HD shows up on the 17's Desktop, double-click on the 15's HD icon and see if you can eject the DVD from a Finder window on the 17's Desktop.
Also, you don't say which light was "blinking weird," but you might consider reseating the 15's RAM, and, if there are two modules, possibly removing the one in the lower slot completely to see if that helps.
Tuttle
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