- What are the specifications printed on that ThinkPad power supply?

- Did you smell anything? (Seriously.)

- The hard drive problem may have been a coincidence of timing, please check the FAQ on all the possible causes of drive trouble and rule those out.

- The screen doesn't click as far as I know. I'm guessing you're hearing a hard drive click.

It's highly likely that the empeg is repairable, don't panic yet. Others have done particularly bad things like hook it up to AC current, and they had to do some chip replacements on the motherboard, but it's fixable if we can trace the fault.