I had the EXACT problem when I started out! Damn,glad to know I'm not the only one. Anyway,hope your HD's working fine.
I had the problem with getting liquid on a Netbook. Then I contacted Dell in my home country, but since the netbook was bought in the USA, there was no service to get. Finally after getting hold of Dell in the US, and sending a couple of spare keyboards to a US address, everything worked out in the end.
But water and electronics in general does not mix well.
A word for the future could be to always keep backups of important things away from the PC itself.