BLUE SCREEN on my power book after it took a Coke bath!

I spilled some Coke on my laptop and after a month of being dead it came back to life. Now when I turn it on I get a blue screen with the Mac hard drive icon in the center and a button on each side, on the left a sort of refresh/reload button on the right an arrow (like go ahead kind of button).
If I press refresh nothing happens, if I press arrow, the computer boots up. The battery does not last much like used to and as I'm working on the computer the characters change from normal letters to special symbols like when you press option c you get ç.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Please help,
Thank you
Vanesa
Message was edited by: Vanesa
Message was edited by: Vanesa

Hi again, Vanesa. The blue screen with the two buttons is the Startup Manager, which is invoked when you start the Powerbook up while pressing and holding the Option key. It never appears under any other circumstances. So the fact that it appeared when you started up your machine is a dead giveaway that your Option key was depressed at the time. If you weren't holding it down, something else was: undoubtedly the sticky Coke residue. The offbeat characters appearing when you type confirmed the diagnosis. I didn't need any Sherlockian powers of deduction to figure it out; I just needed your description of the Startup Manager screen, which was crystal clear.
It's too late now to do any of the things you should have done immediately after the spill, but you may want to read this article about spill cleaning just for the light it sheds on what can happen when computers and liquids collide:
http://www.tekserve.com/service/spill.php

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