Fixing Dell laptop destroyed by ice tea?

Hey all, seeing as you're general computer geniuses I wanted input from you on this!

Basically, my girlfriend (of the internet, but we met in real life a few months back etc) spilled her drink on her laptop's keyboard a month or two ago. It's a Dell Inspiron 600m still under warranty, but not with the retard-spilling-stuff-on-it warranty.

So immediately following the spill, she turned it off, and for a few days the keyboard just appeared to be broken (some keys not working, random letters, normal symptoms.) But after a few more days, the screen started flickering off sometimes, and right now the screen hasn't worked at all for some time now. I assume some of the liquid got onto the connector board for the LCD and caused that part to slowly fail.

Right now, the problems the laptop is having are:
1. Keyboard water damaged
2. LCD does not "turn on"
3. VGA output doesn't give out anything (tried this the other day just as an idea)
4. It appears to turn off after about 30 seconds, but this might be a BIOS or OS issue that would require a working screen to diagnose.

So I got her to call up Dell, they would like $499 to repair it. Considering her model is on eBay for approx. $550 (man Dells lose value like all hell) it's really not worth doing.

So I ask - what should be done? Obviously I need a replacement keyboard, but would you guys diagnose the other problems as "replace the motherboard" or something more specific? Right now my plan is to get her to ship it off to a local technically-minded friend and have him put in various bits from one of the 600ms floating around on eBay for "parts" - only problem being most of those are on eBay because of a faulty motherboard, which goes for upwards of $200 and still might not fix it.

Thoughts, /comp/? :(

scrap it for parts or sell it on ebay

i like ice tea

It'd probably only get $150 or something on eBay. It doesn't seem beyond fixing, so I don't see a reason to sell it at a huge discount that could probably be avoided.

Iced tea? Bad news, with the sugary content of it which will likely fuck up the motherboard even if it's long dry later on. My best recommendation is to ditch the motherboard. Take it apart, keep everything except the motherboard, or the whole motherboard chassis. Sell it off eBay and advertise it as working, but with issues, which should still sell as long as it powers on to BIOS. Then use that cash you have from selling it to buy a new motherboard.