Imac late 2006 has two big white bars on the screen.

Hello,
     I have a late 2006 intel imac and it also has the apparently extremely common vertical white bars on the screen.
They have the same size, about a twelveth of the whole screen, and are spaced by a well functioning bar of exactly the same size. So i thought this could be a problem with the connectors, and i wondered, is there any connector inside the imac that has 12 pins?
P.S.: I'm trying to fix this myself because i took it to an apple authorized repair center (which is the closest we have in Portugal to a real Apple repair center), and they said it would be 550€, a ridiculous amount of money, since the screen costs something like 150€, and they ended up charging me 50€ just for letting it stay the night since they didn't even open it.
I have been an extremely loyal customer and am extremely disappointed in Apple for not replacing this screens for free, since it's clearly a manufacturing problem.

You are just better off saving up your money to buy a new iMac.
Late 2006 iMac graphics problem, system freezes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j-tZ_v1aCc   <<< click here.

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