Battery life icon freeze

Well, this is hardly novel, but my battery life icon tends to be wrong. In the sense that it sticks, say at (3:06) remaining, and right until the moment it sleeps itself will say (3:06)...unless I change the display under "show." At which point it unsticks itself.
I reset the PRAM. I'm also having a probably unrelated issue whereby the printer utility is not able to see shared printers. All of this only started happening after I updated to 10.4.6.
Anyone else have this problem?
Molly

Molly,
"Repair Disk Permissions" from Disk Utility may help.
Also, re-installing the latest combo update may help as well.
Mihalis.
Dual G5 @ 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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