Battery condition says "Check battery"

I have a MacBook Pro 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and am now on my third battery, which is now only 12 months old. The nice people at the Apple Store gave it to me at no charge because my first two batteries had such short lives. Currently System Profiler says "Check battery" and that full charge capacity is only 3368 mAh after only 43 cycles.
Why do these batteries not last well? Dying after only 43 cycles? I need to return to the Apple Store for a fourth battery?

Hi Mactrix,
I did try that, and unfortunately, without warning, the machine shut off as I was sending mail and Mail got corrupted. I've calibrated the battery before, and always got a pop up that warned me that the machine is now running on reserve power. After the "reserve" ran out, it would sleep. But this time there was nothing, just a "click" and darkness.
Took the machine to the Apple store, they hooked up an iPod nano running a battey test program which said the battery was bad, Because the people there are so nice, they gave me a new battery (because it had so few cycles on it). No wonder Apple support is rated so high.
Fortunately, I could restore Mail from TimeMachine - although there are some quirks I'm working on.

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