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Final Note in the thinkpad battery story: I went down to the IBM service ctr today with my old battery and thinkpad in hand. 10 minutes later I was walking out with a free new battery, and some complimentary cat-tongue-caps. My original assumption was that batteries would not be covered under warrenty due to their "consumable" nature. I was pleasantly surprised when they were happy to replace it (the machine is 10 months old). So - now I have two new batteries - the one I bought as a replacement ($200 CDN), and the warrenty replacement. I'm pretty happy. Murray P.S. - the fellow at the service center was a little confused when he booted my machine and saw Linux come up :-)