MacBook White Screen

Ok I turned on my computer today and the screen on my MacBook is white. I hear it start up but the screen never changes it just stays white. I hooked up my MacBook to my 20 inch Cinema Display the Cinema Display works but the MacBook stays white. In the Display options I do NOT have it set to mirror so if I move my mouse over to the MacBook screen it disappears then will reappear when i bring it back to the cinema display. The OS is running fine as far as I can tell, I just cant see it on my MacBook screen. Any help?

Wind, what did you do/say when you went down to the store? I was told they had never seen anything like it and they just wanted me to send it in to Apple...I got a call back form the store manager two days later saying he was sorry for the bad time I had (it was my 2nd time down there, and it's a 2-hour drive one way) and he would give me a discount...and he did no such thing, in fact, he quoted me a price higher than what the "Genius" quoted me. Here are pics, before the "pinching", and after:
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