Personally, I admire Centretek's tenacity. I think the difference between his attitude (and for perhaps a lot of the same reasons, I share his attitude) and the attitude behind much of the advice he's getting here has a lot to do with where he lives.
Where I live, there's nowhere to recycle your CRT monitor (there isn't even recycling for glass!). They have a "big trash" day, where everybody puts their stuff out on the same night, and all night people drive around picking through each others garbage. Whatever's left by the morning gets picked up and chucked in a landfill. It's just the economics of it: real estate is so cheap, people are deluded into thinking they're better off chucking stuff (some if it quite dangerous) into a hole in the ground.
But there's global post all over anyway, and global information resources (like this forum), so it doesn't have to be like that. Living in a remote location with a fragile environment, it makes a lot more sense to replace the least that needs replacing, rather than paying the cost (economically and environmentally) for more than you need.
I think Centretek's right to rant. His problem reflects the consumerist greed of large companies. They'd rather make a buck off selling him a new monitor, and at the same time passing the buck onto him for the disposal of his old one. If that's the way they want it, fine, but let them pay the cost of the landfill, or better yet, the recycling facility for his old monitor.
The argument of "repairing the product is too hazardous to the consumer" is really weak, because it's well within their means to both provide you with a safe procedure for repairing the monitor, and covering themselves legally in doing so (e.g. "OPENING THIS BOX VOIDS ALL OBLIGATIONS FROM THE PROVIDING COMPANY").
Keep up the good work, Centretek. I'm just sorry I'm not able to help you more. Somewhere out there there's a hacker with the help you need, keep looking. Just keep it safe.