"Battery Is Not Charging" message

Hey all: I am brand new to the Mac world, and have a week old MBP 15 2.4 GHz with 2 Gig ram. I have been using the machine constantly since I got it on 4 days ago. Other than a few minutes here or there (or when in sleep mode traveling from home to office), the machine has always been run with the power adapter.
Today the % charge displayed on the battery icon has hovered around 55%, and when I click on the battery icon, it says "Battery is not Charging." Nevertheless, the green light is ON at the magnetic plug.
What is going on, and how do I deal with it.
Thanks,
EnerSal

The problem got worse and worse. The battery icon would say 90% charged with a run time of 4 plus hours. I then took the machine to a location where I had no power adapter, and it drained the battery in 15 minutes.
I took it to the Apple store this past weekend for a "genius bar" appointment. The tech looked at it for 90 seconds, declared that the battery was bad, and replaced it. The whole thng ook 5 minutes.
Now I have a battery that charges till full, runs for 4 hours + on a charge, and works great. Problem solved.

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Genuine Lenovo Replacement Battery Does Not Charge

After reading the number of people on this forum who experienced the same problem I faced (my T61p 9 cell battery went from fine to dead overnight), I took the advice of the contributors and purchased a new, genuine Lenovo replacement battery from a seller on e-bay. I compared the new battery to my original battery and here's the test results for each of the 2 batteries;
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Yesterday I set up my computer fresh from the preload on the harddrive due to slowness, instabilities, inability to use VPN etc. After the reinstallation of OS and securiy updates, my battery does not charge anymore. The battery indicator on the front panel keeps blinking, and the Lenovo message center reports that irrepairable damage has been done to the battery and that it must be replaced.
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[http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303035]

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