"Shadow" strip on bottom of iBook 14" screen?

Hey all,
I recently bought an iBook real cheap off a friend of mine. It was (and is) in almost perfect condition, and had no dead pixels or anything wrong with the screen that I could see when I bought it. A few days ago, when I changed my desktop, I noticed a barely noticable small strip on the very bottom of the display that can only be described as a shadow - It makes whatever is under it a tad darker. It doesn't "fade" like a show does though; the top just "ends" and the screen returns to normal. It's only a few pixels high, and stops about a half inch from either side of the monitor. At the ends, it sinks down into points within a few pixels. It's important to note that this "shadow" is perfectly symetrical.
I've drawn up a mockup of what I see in the below image. Note the sides of the bar and the symetry. The scale is a bit off - it's much thinner, and the grey is a strong exaduration so you can see the shape I'm talking about.
http://webman2k.googlepages.com/monitor.gif
Has anyone seen this? It doesn't appear to be growing, and the perfect symmetry and angled ends leads me to believe that it's almost meant to be there. It's so thin and barely visible that it doesn't affect the usage at all, but I'm curious what could be causing this. Is there a part under the screen at the bottom that would cause this effect?
Thanks for your help!

Well, let's hope the computer is well-behaved at least!
In some desktop computers, when you put an image up on the
screen, you may see a comment that an image may be covering
the first desktop image. Such as a pattern being there first, and
an image chosen later. But in OSX and on newer Macs, you don't
get that kind of a message and having two images (where they
may be seen together) is unlikely or nearly impossible.
If you get the VGA adapter and an external display of supported
resolution, you could see if the image you view in the LCD also
appears in the other external display when at the same
resolution. In some cases, you can change the resolutions and
some edge artifacts are unseen; at the expense of how things
appear you want to see. But you get the idea, to check the
video output to see if the video circuit is projecting the grey
artifact, or if the LCD is burned-in.
In any event, let's hope it keeps working!

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