Brand new battery will not charge

I just bought a new battery for my mac book, because I assumed that my old one had died. However the new one won't work either, and now I am out of the country so no genius bar visits are in my near future. The battery status is listed as uninstalled and there is an x through the battery icon in the menu bar. What am I missing? How do I install it?

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Reset the SMC, and PRAM. Here are the articles of significance.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
If it doesn't work, run the hardware test that came with the Mac:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081
And if that doesn't work, try to replace the RAM.
And if that doesn't work, take it in for service.

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