Battery Indicator continues to Flash at 99%

I have an HP Pavilion dv5237cl notebook computer. The notebook battery indicator continues to flash even though the battery charge percentage is 99%. Does anybody know why this is happening?

alex349 wrote:
Ever since I installed Leopard a month ago the battery menu icon has been behaving oddly. When the battery is charged to 99% the icon switches to the "charged" icon from the "charging" icon. The power adapter still glows orange AND the time shown in the battery menu says "Calculating time until full", not even the time it had just a percentage ago. A screenshot is below:
http://alex.clst.org/macsites/images/batterymenu.png
This has to be the OS, not the battery because it never did this in Tiger. When I run on battery it gets the same 3 hours and 55 minutes it did under Tiger with normal use. Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Thanks, Alex.
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