Dark Screen, tried repairs

I recently lost, or think i lost, the backlight to my screen. I changed both the inverter board and the inverter power cable and I still have a dark display which would lead me to believe that the problem is with the screen itself but if that's the case wouldn't the screen be "off" not dark? If I shine a light on the screen I can see the graphics, I thought that definitely meant the screen was ok. Any one else experience this? Could it be malware?

I am a new owner of Mac products. I am also a conversion from PCs and Laptops (been owning and using them for over 15 years). I was NOT impressed when I bought my first Mac on 12-11-07 and had the same problem you described - nearly black screen. This never happened to me with the other manufacturers of PCs and Laptops - Ever.
Anyway, I marched straight to the Apple Store carting that defective Mac. That night I had an appointment with an Apple Genius the next day. On 12-12-07, I stomped into the Apple Store again with that non-performing equipment. The Apple Genius whipped it out of the box and in less than 3 minutes rendered a judgment - the backlight was dead.
The Apple Genius swapped out (replaced) my defective equipment directly after his equipment eval.
I cannot say what impressed me more. The immediate swap out of the equipment without me showing receipts and IDs OR how contrite he was over me receiving blatantly defective equipment straight-out-of-the-box.
This message is posted courtesy of scifi007's new MacBook Pro Mac OS X 10.5.1

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Morning Clementine Lin,
For more information this, please see this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
Take a look at the Will not turn on, will not turn on unless connected to power, or unexpected power off section.
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