I sent my iBook with the bad hard drive but the good screen, along with my other iBook with the good hard drive but the bad screen, at 5 p.m. Tuesday to The Seattle Mac Store. At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday they called with the good news: They’d successfully created a Frankenmac out of my workable parts.

Of course, I was then up to 4 a.m. reloading all the documents, preferences, etc. from my backup hard drive. Then I’ll get to do even more backing up and reconfiguring once OS X 10.3 shows up.