A Series of Confusing Events - Inspiron 5100

I've looked quite hard since this happened yesterday, but I haven't been able to get a definitive answer anywhere. To me it seems very bizarre and I'm hoping that someone with more intimacy of the Inspiron 5100's hardware will be able to discern what's wrong.

Yesterday morning I picked up my laptop, which had been out of use since the prior evening, and immediately noticed there was something wet on the lefthand corner near the track pad. I opened it up to see a clear fluid around the left clip on the monitor portion of the 5100. The fluid had spread around the frame of the monitor and onto the handrest beside the trackpad. The fluid was slightly viscous and room temperature. I looked on the back of the monitor to find that, where the blue plastic meets silver on the left hand side, more of this fluid was present. Some of it had dried to a metallic green.

The laptop turned on just fine and showed absolutely no signs of injury in its preformance. I reformatted it a couple months ago and it's been going like a champ since then. I had to put the laptop aside to go to class so I shut it off and left it. I came back later and thoroughly studied the case again. There was no further leaking. (Since the initial leak, there has been no additional leakage as of yet.) I turned my laptop on and found that it was unable to read the HD. After about half an hour of restarts, it finally made contact with the HD and booted up. I got it up long enough to back up the important files I keep on there. Shortly after I got a blue screen. It subsequently went into a cycle of rebooting and blue screening over and over until I was able to intervene and have it boot to safe mode. It did not blue screen in safe mode. It behaved for the next couple hours I used it, then I put it away for the evening.

Today, I turned it back on to use it and was rewarded with another blue screen about ten minutes into usage.

A quick list of pre-emptive answers that I can think of:

• Yes, I am absolutely positive the fluid came from the laptop.
• There have been no new drivers or hardware recently added.
• There have been no events of trauma to the laptop for years.

Anyway, I would really appreciate any input given on this particular problem. I'd also like to know that, if the problem is able to be diagnosed, what exactly I would be looking at replacing or otherwise doing to fix the problem. Thanks in advance!