Screen starting to fade in the corner

My macbook is 4 years old and the screen was replaced at the genius bar in Glasgow a year later in response to a problem that was unrelated to the screen. The problem was an overactive fan which makes the bottom of the screen go dark sometimes. There was nothing wrong with the actual screen and now the top left corner has started to fade, most noticably when watching films.
Is this normal or was my screen replaced with one with a shorter lifetime?
It's a MacBook3,1 bought in November 2007.
As for the fan, it's still whurring like a hair dryer a lot of the time, I've managed to isolate and remove certain processes but it still goes off when I watch video on youtube, or use websites that require adobe flash to be installed, there's not a lot I can do about that. Maybe if I installed windows on it it might stop this, who knows...
The display also goes blank when I tilt the screen at a certain angle, so I tend not to use the machine as a portable device anymore if I can help it in case moving the screen further exacerbates the problems or causes a total failure in video output altogther, because I can't afford to have it fixed.

WELL IT FINALLY HAPPENED MY SCREEN HAS GONE ON THE BLINK. 1250 EURO FOR THIS, AND NOW I CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY ANOTHER WAD OF CASH TO GET IT FIXED WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH APPLE I WONT BE BUYING ANY OF YOUR PRODUCTS AGAIN YOU CLEARLY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR CUSTMERS
I'M TYPING THIS WEARING A TORCH ON MY HEAD TO LIGHT THE SCREEN BUT IT'S NOT VERY WORKABLE, IT SORT OF FLICKERS WHEN I ADJUST IT BUT I JUST CAN'T GET IT TO STAY LIT
WHAT IS THERE A LOOSE CABLE INSIDE IF I OPENED ITCOULD I FIX IT QUITE EASILY?
I GUESS PROBABLY NOT, DEISNGING THEM LIKE WOULD BE TOO EASY AND THEN THEY COULDN'T CHARGE US MORE MONEY TO GET PROBLEMS LIKE THIS FIXED.
MACBOOKS ARE A JOKE I TOTALLY REGRET BUYING ONE NOW.
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