Dell Inspiron 1100 Laptop

I have a Dell Inpsiron 1100 Laptop. It's actually my sister's laptop. We bought it for her as a Christmas gift a few years ago. It has a 2.30 GHz Celeron and 256 MB of RAM. Basically, good enough to surf the web an do e-mail, and could really use some more RAM.

It worked the last time I used it, but it has had a rough life. She spilled something in it, and I replaced the keyboard. The power cord has been all chewed up and I think a replacement will be necessary to get it to start up again. I took it with me to work, thinking I'd just plug it up and try something with it during lunch, but I haven't been able to make it "go".

Since DDR2 is so cheap now, (making DDR1 relatively expensive) it's hardly worth investing $50 to $100 in a stick of memory for it... since new, better laptops are cheaper. It isn't even really mine. My wife asked her sister to let her borrow it, but she found it too slow. I think I'm just caught up in the idea that if I can make something old work, then that's better than just throwing it away. Not too long ago, I threw away some Slot-1 Penitum IIs and motherboards, but I can't bring myself to junk a few other things taking up space, and waiting for my kids to grab and hurt themselves on. We'll see.

So, anyone have a DDR SO-DIMM they want to trade for, or a power adapter that will work for a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop? I've got lots of SDRAM I can trade.