From what I have niticed its most likely graphic driver issue or something with loading it. When the system boots up I can see fine apple log with osxlattitude and after a while screen gos crazy, I mean crazy, changes colors, strips along the screen, it darkens from edges to the centre and go bright the same way. Never seen anything like that and Im IT engineer and seen many wierd things. I will record that on me phone and drop you a link. Also noticed that this lid trick works every time so what efectively is happening is it go to sleep and on the wake up it loads the graphic driver correctly maybe?
Trackpad is working perfectly fine until screenserver load, once screensever kicks in I loose trackpad and pointer is not moving. Again looks to me that nvidia driver may be cousing that. Not sure how to identify the problem.