Battery Killed by New OS

I loaded the new OS with little problems a couple of days ago. With this new OS my touch's battery needs to be charged totally within a few hours. No, it's not the battery. It was working fine before the upgrade. I believe it's the constant pushing of info to it when asleep. A big thanks for that Apple. Anyone else having this problem and where the **** can I downgrade this thing at?

Sorry, this question was not answered and I am not pleased at all with Apple.
I have a gen 2 and the latest 4.0 update to the operating system has cost me three days trying to fix and revert back to the 3.1.2 software. The issue with the new 4.0 is that it apparently keeps the wifi active while in sleep so push notifications will still arrive. This, of course drains the battery dramatically. There is another issue with the wifi, perhaps related or not, that results in the wifi signal strength being erratic and dropping out from time to time and just generally not as sensitive as before. Both symptoms have been confirmed by my tests with a second ipod running 3.1.3.
Therefore I had no choice (Apple has been silent so far) but to revert back until they patch 4.0 with a fix for older ipods. Something I won't hold my breath for.
The site where I found the older version software was http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/ where I downloaded "iPod touch 2G (3.1.2/7D11)" as I read that the 3.1.3 didn't work.
After attaching the ipod to the computer and running up iTunes, I held down the shift key and pressed the restore button. This gave me the opertunity to search for the update in my downloads folder (instead of restoring to 4.0) which I then selected the 3.1.2. The restore process happened and I then found that I couldn't use the previous backup to retrieve info and would have to act as if this was a new machine to this computer. The problem was that I had updated some of the apps after the 4.0 update. This cost me time to configure and reload all the photos, music and apps to the ipod. The contacts and bookmarks also needed to be entered or synced again as well. Also, I lost email settings so I had to reestablish those accounts. Within the apps, all past info and files were also missing. In essence I had a clean slate.
Like I said, three days to get back to where I was before 4.0 update. Thank you Apple for that. A simple "Go Back" within iTunes would have been nice, but I believe the arrogance of the people shoving this update out the door before it was ready would never crossed their minds.
I will never again do an update without checking for the possible downside.

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