So my TV, for the past two years, has been displaying amorphous dark blobs on the screen, that didn't seem to have any sort of pattern or anything, just a slightly darker section of the screen that would really only be noticable when watching something dark.

Well I read some stuff about how that could be caused by dirt buildup either between the LCD and clear cover, or between the lamp and the LCD so I started to disassemble it to get to the LCD panel. I've replaced a lot of LCD's on monitors and laptops so I figured they'd be similar.

So I get the whole cover off and...