> There's a long and insightful thread on the Apple Discussion board 
> about batteries and charging them. A fair few people have echoed the 
> issues that you have encountered. Have a peek at it:
> 
> http://discusssearch.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.599c1f27

Thanks for the link Joel, there are some very interesting
observations there. I did the 'slow discharge' today without any
major improvement in the Ah reading... so one more test
overnight and I'll see about having it replaced with a battery
that lasts more than two hours with the machine all-but-sleeping.

Thanks everyone! Again the WAMUG list proves exceedingly useful! :)

Ryan