Battery Stops Charging at 97% - What does this mean?

I got a new macbook pro about 3 months ago. I am super paranoid about battery maintenance as I had for a years a ti-book with a dead battery and really didn't want the repeat annoyance.
Since I have updated to 10.5.1, my battery first started reading that it was fully charged at 99%. This immediately worried me because the same thing started happening before and then everything went downhill from there.
Now, it's reading fully charged at 97%.
Anybody have any idea if this is the beginning of the end?!

This is normal:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88344

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