I popped into the station today, to see if Apple had returned my iBook from their repair centre. They had.

A couple of days ago, there was a near coronary-inducing phone call between myself and Apple that went something like this:

Me: What's the status of my repair, your site's not showing it
Apple: It's on hold. We need authorisation, as some of the repair isn't covered by AppleCare. The 'screen brace' bracket thingy is broken, and it's not a hardware failure, it's been wrenched.
Me: I didn't wrench it. Any plans on asking for my authorisation?
Apple: Oh wait! I've found some other notes on your case. We are going to cover the screen-brace-bracket-thingamabob after all. Sorry to have scared you.
Me: Scare me?
Apple: Yeah, that bracket alone is $700.
Me: Ouchie!

So anyway, I have my little iBook back, and it feels like a new machine :)

OK, so maybe you don't care, but it's my main writing machine, that goes with me everywhere, so it's important to me.