UPDATE: This has been a few weeks coming and not really that exciting as of yet. I purchased a replacement display panel and cable. The cable replacement was purchased because of how utterly covered the panel end of the cable had become. Having read some interesting thoughts and ideas about how to clean the sticky material from the inner shell, I took to removing the components that sat along that lower edge of the case and used alcohol on Q-Tips to dissolve and absorb as much as possible. The issue / difficulty being that some items are securely taped or seemingly glued to the inner shell. I had wanted to remove everything and simply have it soak in a vat, but had to settle for the Q-Tip solution.
The newly purchased panel did not also include a bezel and my hopes were to somehow free the bad display from the bezel and mount it to the new display.. There are not any instructions, no does it seem clear by close inspection on how to do that. (Thoughts would be appreciated. Anyone who follows DIY Perks online might have seen his video of making a display from a touch panel. I am hoping I can find some manner to either lift the bezel and apply it to the new panel, or make a new enclosure for the touch panel, with extended wire to connect it back to the system board. (fingers cross with either decision.)