How do i get my ibook to start up?

I have had my iBook G4 since about February of '05, and today it just will not start up. It worked fine yesterday, and I turned it off the normal method, so there was nothing out of the ordinary. But this morning when I plugged the adapter into the outlet and hit the power button, nothing happened. No noise, nothing. The screen stays black and doesn't start up. The outlet is giving it power because the green light around the plug is on. When I hit the button on the battery, it shows 4 dots of light. I removed the battery, then put it back in after a few minutes and it still does nothing. I am starting to get dissatisfied with Apple's products, it seems like they are not meant to last very long. After about a few months, the ink on the letters on the keyboard wore off, but weren't able to be replaced because the keyboard still worked (i'm not going to pay $60 for a new keyboard for a laptop that was only a few months old). I had 2 iMacs that both had serious problems (the disc drive died on one, and the other iMac just stopped working one day). Both were about 2 years old. I don't want to do anything that might erase the hard drive on my laptop because I have alot of stuff on there, is there any way I can get this computer to start working (without paying the Apple Store a fortune)????

Another Apple Knowledge Base article which may help is _Troubleshooting portables that won't turn on or start up_. Maybe something there will help.
Did you call in about the keyboard problem? At one point, they were sending out a free new keyboard to replace one with the worn-letter problem. I'm not sure they're still doing that, though.

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