Charger dies when external devices connected or keyboard used

My wife ran the battery down on her 1.8G PowerBook, while on travel with Bluetooth & AirPort on. Returning home she connected it as normal to her remote keyboard, internet, printers and external monitor. When attached, the charging indicator would first be green for a second, then orange for about 5 seconds, then off. Disconnecting the keyboard & monitor, and turning Bluetooth & Airport off allowed it to continue to charge (orange) until the mouse or keyboard was used, then the charging indicator would go out again.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Henry

You don't mention how long you attempted to charge with nothing connected. Sometimes a battery can be so low that it needs to charge without powering anything...in other words, try charging for a couple hours or overnight with the computer off and nothing connected to it other than the power cord. An SMC reset prior to doing this may also help. If the problem is simply that the battery was very low, the combination of SMC reset and overnight charging with no power drain should get you back to normal.
If that doesn't work, you may need a new battery.

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