Disabling Airplane Power Mode?

I have an L440 laptop with Windows 7 installed. I keep the wifi turned off at all times unless I need it for battery life purposes. Sometime in the few months or so, something autoupdated and now the laptop goes to airplane mode in power manager every time I turn off the wifi using F8. This dims my screen and slows the charging rate and is generally annoying. I tolerated it for a while thinking Lenovo would fix it with another update, but power manager has updated twice since then without fixing the problem.
I did a search in these forums, and none of the solutions I found worked for me. I found one link telling another user with the same issue to set the wireless power setting to moderate while on battery. I do not have this setting in power manager. I found others describing a registry hack, or installing some dependency package. These only work in Windows 8. Another solution is to uninstall Power Manager completely, which I would do except that I use it to force the battery to only start charging when below 40% to minimize charge cycles. Since I often have power available when I'm out on the job I can go for literally weeks between charges with the battery charge very slowly dropping as I occasionally run without AC and I do not want to give this up. Even at 40% I still have plenty of run time if I find myself without a mains connection.
This does bring up another issue though, which is that when I started having the airplane mode issue, my battery began to trickle discharge when powered off. Before this I could put it away for days and it would boot up with the exact same battery % it shut down with. Now I lose about 10% per day which is obviously causing the battery to hit 40% faster and recharge more often. I wouldn't be too upset by this except that I know it doesn't have to happen and Lenovo "broke" it with their software.
Basically, now when I finish a job, I turn off the wifi, Lenovo forces my laptop into airplane mode, and depending on how much of a hurry I'm in I either remember or forget to go back and turn airplane mode off before shutting down and moving to the next job. If I remember, my battery remains level while off. If I forget, my battery discharges while turned off.
I did find the powermanager setting for turning off airplane auto detect, but that made no difference at all.
Is there a way to fix this by "breaking" what Lenovo broke to get my laptop functioning properly again? If I can somehow force airplane mode to not be an option, I'm hoping it will fix this.
Thanks,

When you say you turn off WiFi, what exactly are you doing?
Are you really turning on Airplane Mode (using the menu that appears when you press F8 button)? Or are you just toggling the WiFi radio on and off?
You are correct that Airplane WIRELESS mode also turns on Airplane POWER mode. If you don't want that, then you can avoid using Airplane WIRELESS mode and just toggle the individual radios on and off.
There may also be a way to avoid this by registry entry but I want to make sure I understand exactly what you are doing, first.

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