I was not being rude. I rarely, if ever, feel the need to defend a post but in this case, I was most certainly not being rude. Consider that the tone in which you read something online could be vastly different than the tone it was delivered. I could have easily said, "search you nimrod" or something like that. That would be rude and it would likely get me another T/O because I used the word nimrod. Rude was not the intent. Searching is also not something that takes years of experience. If this forum was found via google then the posts about broken screens would have also been part of the search results. I know this because I've done it myself.
You said what I said ... I don't see it as being rude. See how subjective text can be?
It is not as though I didn't provide a list of possible solutions. /shrug