Images leave shadows behind

My Apple 17" Studio Monitor has suffered a breakdown.
The major symptom is that it leaves traces of previous images on the screen after that image has gone. Also the display seems like its a photo negative, blacks coming out as whites but colours being ok. The longer a window remains on the screen the stronger the resulting trace it leaves.
Also it only happens in certain parts of the screen, mainly the centre.
Is this a dodgy inverter board??

Doesn't really sound like YDB if the background is white....
Did you apply a drop shadow or some other effect, perhaps, without meaning to? It wouldn't be difficult to have made drop shadow a default for all objects you add, for example, by clicking the drop shadow button on the control panel when no object was selected.

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