I've been in contact with the seller and seen a photo. Looks like the screen did not survive the trip back from Ontario. The bad news is he left the power adapter there. The good news it that it is being shipped to him and will contact me when it arrives.

If everything goes as planned I hope to remove the broken screen and use the Macbook as a headless laptop for a home theater. Probably set up with XBMC, FrontRow or some such similar program and stream files from my Mini.