(without opening up the bottom half)Do you have a DS Lite that needs repairs?

HA HA HA SUCKERS. Er, head here for NDSL specific repairs.
I'm warning you, though, any repairs to the NDSL requires a specialty (tri-wing) screwdriver,

and the top screen needs a soldering iron!

If anyone tries out these instructions: could you give me a holler?

(Comment, PM or email me at my user name at gmail dot com.) I want to get a sense of the success rate.

Pre-caution: This is a fairly wordy instructable. Most questions you might have,

and problems you might run into are likely addressed in the body of the instructable

(or within the comments). That means you need to read, and re-read carefully.

Actual intro!: Is the screen your Nintendo DS cracked? Don't throw it out, repair it.

(And then sell it to help cover the cost of getting a new DS lite.) It is not expensive, nor all that

difficult, to replace the screens on a Nintendo DS.
I found PowerGamingParts.com's guide to DS repair to be pretty useful, but I didn't need to disassemble the whole contraption,

since I was replacing the top screen only. (Opening up the bottom half also requires a specialty screwdriver which I didn't have.)
I'm sure there's good directions for replacing the top screen without disassembling the bottom half, but I haven't found them.

And since I'm feeling productive, I present to you documentation of what I did to replace the top screen.

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