Normal operating temperature - A31 2.0Ghz

I do not understand how designers ever thought that a machine that is only 80cm away from your ears can have a fan that it audible.
Nevertheless I am trying to use Thinkpad Fan Control (v0.18) to minimise my fan activity. Removing the battery or setting the BIOS to low speed "helps" but also means a higher load, and thus more heat!!
I am not sure if the idle CPU temperature without the fan running is normal around 58C. With the fan in BIOS mode it stays around 42C, but it still seems rather high to me. Is it possible that it needs new theral paste or the heat sink is not set well?
T61p T7500, Quadro FX 570M, 4GB, 60GB Patriot Pyro, XP Pro
X61t Tablet, L7300 Centrino vPro, Windows 7 Home 64-bit
tpfancontrol installed on all systems
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I guess this is some improvement:
on BIOS mode the CPU goes down to 33C in idle and will stay around in 51C with no fan using TPFC.
Straight writing in the word processor never makes the fan go on, but with 5+ tabs and my database open, it will go to 60C then start the fan. That probably means that watching video on this machine is a no go!
My sister, cat owner and thus good experience with cleaning out computers, took a look. She noticed that  around the CPU there was a burnt capacitor C508. It ain`t broke so no fixing, but that may be related to the defective USB ports or why it will not run from the battery. She probably also tightened the fan or put the the thermal paste on better...
The update to Thinkpad Fan Control did not make much difference, but the interface is nicer. I tried the BIOS 1.13 but it was not accepted, but 1.10 went through fine. In either one there were no indications of changes to temperature control. Power here is stable but still a risk considering my battery (or motherboard) does not work.
As for running processes, I login in a restricted account to avoid having to install an anti-virus/spyware and I used CCleaner to diasable most startup programs, and lastly using services.msc, I disabled a few that I never use. (wifi – automatic updates- help)
Thanks again.
T61p T7500, Quadro FX 570M, 4GB, 60GB Patriot Pyro, XP Pro
X61t Tablet, L7300 Centrino vPro, Windows 7 Home 64-bit
tpfancontrol installed on all systems

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