Battery won't charge, adapter shows green

My battery won't charge. The adapter light shows green. The System Profiler says:
"Battery installed: Yes
Remaining capacity (mAh): 0
AC Adapter cannot charge battery: Yes
AC Charger (Watts): 0
Connected: Yes
Charging: No"
This started suddenly, as it was working fine yesterday. Overnight the battery ran down all the way. I reset the PMU, but no change. This is a replacement Apple battery now about 2 months old. The adapter works fine, as it works on my other laptop. I used a different adapter, just to make sure, but it didn't work either. So, it's not the adapter. The menu bar shows the battery symbol with a plug inside it with "calculating" constantly showing beside it. Is the problem with my battery or some more serious hardware problem? Thanks for any help.

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BUT the internal charge monitoring circuit in the battery pack needs to be reset/reinitialized.
Tried to reset pmu, pram, nvram to no avail icon in upper right shows 0%
No help
Any source of info on how or what I'd need to do this?
iBook   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  
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