Hard drive replacement, now all sorts of problems

A couple weeks ago my hard drive crashed. I confirmed at the Apple store that it was the hard drive, and they gave me instructions on how to put a new one in.
Since I've put the new one in I've had all sorts of problems.
1. My previously totally fine battery doesn't show up at all. Though the battery says it's fully charged, the laptop says that no battery is available.
2. DVDs don't play. The DVD player gets rolling, and then freezes.
3. Photobooth doesn't load "because the camera is in use by another application".
4. My external sound input/output can't be recognized or set up though the driver (also because the IOdirect is "in use").
5. The computer won't completely shut down sometimes and freezes on the blue screen just prior to complete shut down.
I've wiped the hard drive and started over to the same results.
Please, any help?

Have you fixed you problem yet?
1. Have you checked to make sure that the drive is plugged in properly and setting on the proper mounts that were on the old drive?
2. How did you go about putting the OS OSX on the newly installed drive? Ex. Did you install OSX and all you applications then then restored you personal data from a backup? Did you use Time Machine to restore OSX and all data to the new drive? Or did you use a previously cloned drive, along with a program such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Clone, to restore to the new drive?

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