IBook won't start - any ideas?

This is my daughter's computer. It suddenly will not start using a known good adapter. It will not charge it's battery, but will start and run normally from a charged battery. I have reset the PRAM, the PMU and repaired permissions using disk utility. Her battery was just replaced 1 month ago under the recall program. Also, she does admit to having spilled a small amount of liquid on the keyboard about two weeks before it stopped working.

Could be the DC-in board. The part that the power adapter plugs into on the side of the machine. Sometimes gentle "wiggling" might get it to power on, but that's no fix.
The part itself is not too outrageous, and should be avl. from any service shop.

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I've also noticed that when this happens, although I get my Mac OSX desktop, I don't see anything on the top-right-hand-side of the menu bar. So I do get my "apple" menu, and Finder, File, Edit, View, Go, Window, and Help on the left-hand-side, but nothing on the right (display control panel, volume indicator, Date/Time).
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