Help diagnosing broken display

I bought my roommate's Black Macbook C2D 2.0 after he gave up trying to fix it and I'd like to know what is wrong. Here's what I know:
He claims that water was spilled on the computer and it stopped working. I have no other details about what caused this problem or if this was even the culprit. I figured the logic board was toast and was going to harvest parts for another broken Macbook I own but what do you know, it seemed to boot up! When it first starts booting I get maybe a one to two second glimpse of the gray screen then all black, then a little later I see a one to five second glimpse of the blue screen and "starting os x" with progress bar then back to black. Next I tried plugging into an external monitor and "viola", it works fine! How sweet! The System Profiler tells me that I'm running the Intel GMA 950 chipset but under Display Connector it says "Status: No Display Connected". Then it lists my external HDMI TV. In summary, I have a black screen but everything else works great.
I'm suspecting that I may be able to fix this and without replacing the logic board. Does anyone have any info that could help me pinpoint the problem? I have another broken Macbook that definitely has a bad logic board but quite probably the other parts are sound.
Thanks in advance!!!!!

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