Vertical bands on my 17" LCD

Something very odd happened to my 17" LCD this morning. Instead of the usual picture-perfect clarity, I have vertical bands or stripes across the screen. They vary in color from white to grey to blue to black and vary in width. There is no hint of what should actually be displayed on the screen (i.e., the login window for my G4 cube). Also, the outside 1 or 2 inches of the screen is black, as if the screen has a cataract that has blurred the peripheral part of the screen. I've tried rebooting, but no luck. I connected the G4 cube to a different screen and it's working fine, so it's definitely the monitor at fault. This monitor has been connected to this same G4 cube for about 5 years without issue. Has it just reached its lifetime limit? Any suggestions for a potential fix will be most appreciated.

A second purple line appeared along side the blue/green one. These discussions show a problem exists with these lines on their displays, and although they made no acknowledgement of this, The Apple Store replaced the LCD in record time, although I was told at first I would have to wait a month for a new LCD. A new logic board was tried first but did fix the LCD, adding two hundred megabytes of data to my hard drive for diagnostics. I recloned my hard drive to clean it out. Without Apple Care (I'm half way through the three years) this would have cost $700 or more.

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