Battery Error after Power Manager Update

ThinkPad T520, Win7 Pro 64.
TVSU updates Power Manager to V. 6.38. Immediately on reboot notification area shows 0% power and a message stating that a battery error has occurred. The battery LED is now blinking orange and the battery will not charge. Considering that the battery was fully charged and had only 31 cycles on it (although it dates to October 2011) I can only assume that the software has killed the battery. Again, prior to the update there were no indications that the battery was malfunctioning or even losing capacity.
Uninstalling Power Manaager did not help. Re-installing Power Manager did not help.
Is there a way to reset the battery? Am I locked in to buying a Lenovo battery to avoid task bar notifications of a non-genuine battery? Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. Here in Mexico these batteries are very, very expensive.
T520 4239-CTO
T61/p 6459-CTO (Gone but not forgotten)
A31/p XP Pro 1 gig memory
A30/p XP Pro 1 gig memory
TP600 Win 2K 288 mb memory
701C Win 98 Don't ask

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Last week on my R61 (8932-CTO), Update Retriever and System Update requested that I download and install ThinkPad Power Manager for Windows XP version 5.20. After rebooting, I immediately received an error box with the following message:
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