VP201b P/S pix

Excuse the lengthy absence - I replaced it with a new monitor shortly after posting, and just haven't had time to open up the unit until now. So finally, some pix of the power supply, and one of the adjacent board, 'cause I'm wondering if that white stuff is epoxy that's supposed to be there, or crap that's leaked out of something:
















Please let me know if there are any other areas I should shoot....

I have a problem with a VP201b similar to that of Zocoloco's, posted elsewhere on this forum, but the behavior is a little different. For reference, I bought the monitor sometime around 2005 and it's worked perfectly up until 5-6 months ago:

When I turn on the monitor it runs fine until it starts to warm up - generally from 4-6 minutes. Then one or the other half of the screen, divided exactly down the middle, will first start to flicker, then waver in kind of an "underwater" appearance, then deteriorate into vertical blocks and lines in the general colors of whatever's...