$180 later...
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Personal
...and I have a fully function computer. Well almost. Here are the notes from the store that installed the CD drive:

Computer missing 75% of screws. Bracket securing optical drive cable missing. Added screws to hold optical drive in place. Computer in poor condition.

I draw your attention to the part in bold. The auction listing:

This is an ibook 12" 800mhz laptop with a 12" xga lcd screen. with airport wireless connectivity, bluetooth wireless connectivity, 100gb hard drive with 8mb cache (apple O.E.) and an Apple O.E. cd drive! the laptop is in flawless working condition with a new 3.5hr battery, os x tiger 10.4.2, all updates ilife 05 and iwork 05. also alot of other apps!the screen's right hinge is just a tad loose but does not affect it at all, it also has a Torx screw missing from the bottom, also i doubled the factory ram wich makes it much much faster. see pics, it was a wonderful laptop for me for a long long time and it will be good to you too! thanks for looking and happy bidding, also feel free to e-mail with questions, thats what i am here for! Radeon mobility 7500 with 32mb ddr sdram Faster than my ibook G4 1.2 in everyhting i tried! I might add the only reason for sale is i need a car and selling my powerbook and ibook are enough to pay for it! i reserve the right to sell locally! PLEASE GIVE ME BEST OFFERS I TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY! also buy it now has been lowered 50 dollars U.S.

I again draw your attention to the bold parts. For a "flawless working condition" laptop, I've paid a lot of money to make it functional: $50 for the charger, $30 for the replacement CD drive and $150 for the labor to replace the CD drive. Sometimes I wish Ebay left more room in feedback. That way I could have included the poor packaging he did. Yeah, I left him negative feedback and he probably will do the same for me but I don't care. I was going to make it neutral until I saw what the store wrote about it being in poor condition.