My beloved Pinkie randomly stopped working &refuses to charge. please help!

I don't know whats going on. and its not the charger because it charges my brothers ipod. ne suggestions?

Result. My wifi is back working again.
After a number of evenings trawling through the support pages, I found a youtube clip from a chap taking his macbook apart and locating the airport adaptor and connecting cables.
The cable in question is located in the black plastic bar below the display and is a pain to get to. Apprently the most common cause of this issue is the cable becoming dislodged through an impromptu knock. I can see how this happened to me by travelling on the London Underground everyday with my mac in my shoulder bag.
Anyway, having seen the video, I bottled it and went to the genius bar obviously having seen the clip. I had a worst case scenario quote of £95.00, but a quote for a replacement cable and reseal being much less. I'm quite savvy but my mac is sacred and i'd rather the pros did it. Turned out to be £37.00 and my mac came back fixed and clean.... £37.00 for piece of mind is well worth it.
Here's the youtube clip but please don't take unnecessary risks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsSIUs7jzQc
Best of luck all.
Al

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