OT : Monitor dying?

[iehrenwald@earthlink.net]

In the past week, the picture on my monitor has gotten progressively
lighter and lighter.  I haven't touched the contrast or brightness
wheels.  I checked all the connections to and from the tower and
monitor.  Even opened up the tower and re-seated the video card.  No
luck.  The only thing that has changed is [drumroll] the weather.  It's
extremely humid and has been for about a week, coinciding with when the
monitor started having it's problems.  Is it possible that humidity can
make a monitor display the picture much lighter than normal?  If so, does
this cause permanent damage?  Right now it's like I'm looking at the
screen through heavy fog. 

		Thanks
		Ian Ehrenwald