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Just on the off chance, on all of the monitors that I have had die, not a single one was the gun, it was always the cable. I have three monitors sitting in storage right now, not one can successfully display a full color image, except if you tweak the cable in just the right places on just the right angle when the moon is at full ascention.
Anyways, assuming that your monitor really is dying. I would go with the LCD, a 19" LCD is going to give you the effective screen space of a 21". If you notice on CRT's there is a big border (the bezel). CRT manufactures measure the size of their screen by measuring the glass in front, including whatever is sitting there behind the bezel, that you can't see. LCD's however, have to be more honest, there isn't anything really sitting behind the bezel (just metal, and stuff like that, but no LCD display sitting behind the bezel), so the screen size on an LCD is the real screen size.
The thing that might get you, is resolution, LCD's have 1 resolution that they work at (the native resolution), most of them won't even attempt to display above that resolution, and below it, they scale the picture up. The scaled picture normally looks fuzzy, and generally quite awful. So while on a 21" CRT you can get away with 1600x1200 (or maybe above), on a 19" LCD (espically at the prices you were listing), 1280x1024 is going to be your max.
Picture quality on an LCD is generally much better, I'm a software developer, and I wouldn't give up my LCD for anything (be sure to use DVI for the sharpest picture). When watching movies, some LCD's have a problem with black, there is generally too big of a dropoff between grey and black, which can normally be fixed by adjusting the brightness and contrast, but just a warning.
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