Ah I see! I just performed it last night actually, I did a regular shutdown via the “shutdown” button in the settings, everything went just fine luckily. Check out the corrosion that was causing my issue! http://imgur.com/gallery/cCfuGh2

In my settings under "devices" I didn't even have an option named “trackpad" - and that would be why,

lol $@$*…that’s reassuring ^^^ I was just about to order a replacement. Did you ever get it to turn back on? Or figure out what you did wrong lol?