iBook G4 - Power Connector Cable.

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This is quite an interesting situation I'm in.
Today during High School, my first period, I noticed a Mac iBook G4 in the recycle pile used by my schools Tech department. I decided to swoop it up and give it a whirl, and see for myself what the problem with it was.
When I first powered it on, I was receiving a scrambled signal on my display. It was merely a white screen with lines in it, after a while of tinkering, even grabbing a few mac knowledgeable buddies of mine to see if they could do anything. It seemed like this would drag on, and I would not fix it.
In the end, we ended up tapping the screen and seeing a faint hope of light, that light was the appearance of the desktop! Unfortunately, the screen soon vanished back into it's scrambled state. Upon further tapping, we could only figure it was a problem with the connection of the display to the logic board.

I decided to open up my iBook, following this guide:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G4-12-Inch/Display/83/18/

Everything was going great until this step:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/83/images_large/40.jpg
In which it states in the directions:
(WARNING) The connectors at the ends of the cables are attached very firmly to the sockets on the logic board. Pulling directly on the cable will either separate the cable from its connector or the socket from the logic board.
* Lift the upper case enough to disconnect the blue and white power cable from the logic board. Using your fingernails or a dental pick, carefully pry the connector from its socket. Make sure you're pulling only on the connector and not on the socket."

I used a small screwdriver to pry up the connection cable, in the end I ripped the connector off of the logic board..

Here's a few pictures to possibly help:

This one is of my iBook, and the circled area is where the connector was pulled off.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w157/jacobs4chan/Un-Chan/Dscn0448.png
This is a close up of that area.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w157/jacobs4chan/Un-Chan/Dscn0439.jpg
And here is a close up of the cable that also has a connector attached to it.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w157/jacobs4chan/Un-Chan/Dscn0441.jpg

If it helps, the cable that was connecting these two peripherals was Blue and White, connected to the keyboard, and is directly wired to the power button. ):
So the real question now is: Can this be soldered back on? Is there any hope for this device? Possibly another way to turn it on? D:

Thanks in advance.
-Jacob.

Oh yeah, and the specs on this mac from what I know of is that it's a:
iBook G4 - 12" - 1.33GHz - Mac OS X
I'm sorry, but that's all I know. ):
 

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