How to care for battery in non-unibody macbook pro

I have a non-unibody 15" macbook pro 4,1 running 10.6.8. i'm not sure the year it was made [is there a manufacture date anywhere on the machine?].
the included battery finally completely died on me 4 days ago and i ran it solely off the ac power until yesterday, when i got paid and bought a new battery.
aside from calibrating the battery [charge to 100% -> discharge to sleep -> recharge to 100%] as the first thing, what can i do to make this battery last me a long time?
the internet seems to suggest that the machine should generally be left plugged in if near a power source- basically, nearly all the time. is this true?
assuming it is true, how often should i exercise the battery and how much? i should run it down for what percentage per day or week?
thanks!

I keep my MBP connected to AC as much as possible. I do not expect to get the maximum cycles out of it, but I will get it to last as long as possible. So far I have 4+ years on my 2006 MBP with 33 cycles.
Do 'exercise' it about every 4-6 weeks to about the 40% level
Here are a couple of support articles that you may find informative.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
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