Bootup problems, from bad to worse--HELP

Yesterday my iBook appeared not to wake from sleep, and from that point on I have had trouble booting up the machine. Sometimes it boots up but freezes after one or two operations in the Finder; sometimes I hear the HD but the backlight never comes on, and eventually I either force-restart or force-shutdown; and now, I either get no backlight or a screen with two or three broad bands of black & grey with uneven, crayon-like borders between them--yikes.
Here's what I've tried:
- boot in safe mode (worked once; I ran disk utility which verified the disk and fixed permissions for two files)
- reset PRAM
- boot to OSX CD (holding C at startup; didn't work--I'm not certain it's a bootable CD but I think so)
- remove AirPort card
- remove additional memory card (which may not leave enough to run Tiger)
If it weren't for the freezes I'd have thought this was a display problem (I've already had both of the iBook display problems with this machine, both repaired under the extended repair program). But now I'm thinking it's a hard disk problem.
I'm about to try to mount the disk in target disk mode on another machine.
The good news is that I have backed up this disk, the bad news is that my latest backup is about 2 or 3 months old. Sigh.
Any advice??
iBook (late 2001) Mac OS X (10.4.7) G3, 600 Mhz

Hi Alex,
It sounds as if your ibook is suffering from the dreaded logic board failure that runs right across the line of G3 ibooks.
It is caused by the solder deteriorating which provides the graphics chip contact with the logic board and thus causing it to come loose.
Do you find pressing on the left hand side of the ibook makes it start up as normal or by pressing underneath on the left?
If it does make it work then it sounds as if you have this failure.
You can fix this by putting a shim underneath the graphics chip forcing it to make contact correctly. But this doesn't always work perfectly.
Try that pressing on the left and see what happens. Other wise you may be able to ring apple customer relations to ask if they would repair your ibook as an exception. Apple ran a repair scheme to sort this problem (http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/) but as your ibook is late 2001 it is out of the 3 years warranty apple covered it for.
I Hope that helps!
Boid

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