Macbook shuts down completely instead of standby mode

Hi
My mpb17 is running well with power adapter. Only with battery, there is a problem. I have changed the battery just few months ago (< 100battery cycles). Since Friday, the macbook shuts immediate down when the battery status came down from 100% to 30-20% without any problem nor warning message before. With shutting down immediate I mean that the power book shuts completely down during 2seconds. It does not go into the sleeping/standby mode then.
What should I do. The reinstallation of the battery was not helpful.

Hi, I got the same problem, I bought my MBP just 15 days ago, I'm a mac user for nearly 12 years and I just need to say this, Every time Apple sell worse and worse hardware I remember the PowerMacs (601 to G5 beatiful machines and work flawlessly) and the quality of their products goes down, I can't believe it.
I was very doubtful about to upgrade my systems, I still got an ibook G4 12", I think the best and noblest laptop ever, I teach Maya on it (believe or not) and never got any crash or any issue. Common Apple you need to make better products!!
Sorry I'm very upset about this, Even the Mac Pro have a lot of Bugs, like the audio issue. I think Apple Mess up with all this transition to intel, Hope Leopard can fix all about this. Halo Universal ***** on my MBP, on My Dual G5 (upgraded to 7800GS Hacked PC Card) runs extremely well. I'm an Apple Trainer too and I got a lot of problems trying to run my Mac Pro as well as My G5, I spent a lot of money to got garbage functionality, I'm very used to get a excelent quality as Apple Used to bring to us, but this Intel machines... We becoming a PC users... that's so Bad.

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