Extremely annoying freezing, only on battery.

Ok, so I bought my unibody macbook pro in November 2008. All was fine until the DVD drive packed up, now I'm getting freezing whenever I'm on battery power, sometimes it takes a movement of the macbook to trigger the hard freeze, sometimes no movement at all. Makes using the laptop as a laptop near impossible.
The freeze just seizes up OS X, no response at all, no caps lock etc, just hangs then hard reset fixes. Get an intermittent error on startup after a crash where there is no airport drive reported, usually a restart fixes that.
The strangest thing is, I can shake and move the laptop as normal when it's connected to power, but as soon as it comes off power the problems persist. Tried reseating memory modules etc. with no avail, don't really want to have to take it back to Apple again as I use my macbook pro extensively for work applications.

Hi Exilon,
I would not like to dissapoint you but i have seen stuff like this happen before ( rarely )but they normally boil down to having to install a fresh copy of OS X . Before you attempt to do this, try resetting the SMC ( system Management controller ) see link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411 also try to reset the PRAM see link : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
If non of these work, i suggest to set up an appointment with a Genius at you local Apple store, but if you don't feel like or the closest Apple retail store is too far away, Then you will need to install a fresh copy of OS X.
Alternatively if you do not want to try or have failed with the above, you may still be entitled to the 90 toll-free technical phone service . try to give that a shot.
Hope that all your problems are resolved soon.
Regards,
Andrew

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