Well, that's all his fault, isn't it? }
I am less enamoured with the iceBook G3s (as opposed to the fruitBooks, which are whimsical and solid machines). I have my brother-in-law's dual USB G3 and the backlight is dead on it, and I hear of lots of them with recurrent issues like this. Plus there was that whole logic board soldering problem which also affected the early G4s.