Severe screen damage on a 30" ACD

A very sad day indeed:
Last night a framed picture fell off the wall and hit the screen of my 30" ACD in 2 parts leaving profound scratches in both places. One is so deep that background light leaks awfully through it, the other doesn't present light leakage but is quite deep as well.
Here are 2 crappy cell phone pics of the bleeding scratch (taken with the LCD showing a pure black image): http://homepage.mac.com/luisbustamante/LCDscratch.jpg
My question is if there's something to be done? Can Apple fix this? If so, will it be so expensive that I'll be better off buying a new display? Any other suggestions?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks for your help.
dual 1.8 Ghz Power Mac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

This is one of those things that home contents insurance is for. It will cost you a lot to get it repaired, if Apple will even offer this service. You might want to just eat the cost and buy a new one.
To repair yourself, you will need a new LCD panel. You're looking for the LG-Philips LM300WQ1, but I don't like your chances of finding just one of them. I suspect there's only about 4 companies that buy them from the manufacturer.

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