My screen won't work

RE: MacBook Pro 2.4GHz
Hi
My screen turned off about a month ago however I could tell that my laptop was still on. I booked it in at the genius bar (Manchester Arndale, UK) where they connected it to an external monitor and sure enough i could see my display on the external monitor. The guy at apple said it would be £360 to repair.
I thought that was a bit expensive and went home. After a short while my screen came back on and the picture was clean and crisp!
Great I thought. Since then it has been on and off, on and off about 30 or 40 times in the space of about a month. It has been off for between 5 minutes and a few hours each time before coming back on to it's usual excellent self. There is no time when the display looks poor, it is either on perfectly or off.
The strange thing is when off and open, the laptop display screen is black, when I turn it on the screen changes subtly to a very dark blue/black colour.
The display has not come on now for over 12 hours, so I am starting to worry!
When i attach an external monitor I can use my laptop as normal, but it is very inconvenient.
I have read about the problem with the GeForce 8600M GT graphics card, which my laptop has, could it be this?
I don't want to replace the display as I think this is fine, when it works, could it be a lose connection?
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Thanks

Yes I followed your advice and went to the ifixit website. Here is the link to the repair tutorial http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Core-2-Duo-Mod els-A1226-and-A1260-Display-Data-Cable/1312/1
They were selling the cables on the ifixit webite for $49 but I bought one off ebay for £20 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Macbook-Pro-15-Display-Data-Cable-A1226-A1260-/25072177408 7?pt=UK_Computing_Apple_Mac_Accessories&hash=item3a602eaa07#ht_665wt_907
Fingers crossed it is all ok and no more problems!

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