This is VERY embarassing...

ok here i go
my girlfriend's guinea pig (hate the thing) was on my desk last night, decided to crawl up on top of my macbook and proceed to urinate on the keyboard, about a 3 inch radius around my esc key. now, i threw the rodent on the floor and wiped up what i could. i powered down and popped the battery off, found a how-to online to disassemble the comp to expose the logicboard (i am kind of computer savvy.. no not really). there was some moisture on the airport card, so i wiped that up and let it sit for 24 hours or so.
now as you can guess the thing will not turn back on. i am 100% positive that i reassembled the unit back together and the battery is 100% charged. is there anything else i can do to get my baby working again before i take it to get it looked at?
needless to say the guinea pig is not coming off the floor in my office, EVER again.

Urine is very electrically conductive. You need to do more than wipe it up. You need to flush everything that got urine on it with warm distilled water, not tap water. You can use tap water for the first flushings but use distilled water for the final flushings.
If you take it to a service center they will most likely replace everything that got peed on. They want to make sure all bases are covered. So, even if you were to ruin it by flushing it you are no worse off for having tried. And it is a common practice to wash electronic circuit boards in water to rid them of contamination. You must take care to not get any components wet that will not tolerate water, such as your hard drive. It has air ventilation to its internals, so pee could conceivably get in. The keyboard contacts themselves are going to be a place that can harbor pee and water, i.e. not dry out. You need to replace the keyboard or take it apart, key by key and completely disassemble it to the point of exposing the electrical contacts. A new Keyboard can be had for $40 on ebay. Cleaning it will be a very time consuming job, but it can be relaxing too if you enjoy that kind of work.

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