Incredible Battery Drain While Phone is OFF

I'm on my third Sprint Pre right now and thought I finally found some rock-solid hardware. Sadly, there's this strange problem affecting the battery of my phone. When the phone is on, the battery operates like normal. When I turn the phone off at night, I get the low battery symbol the next morning... it's draining like crazy (I've turned it off with close to a full charge too).
To give you a comparison, while the phone was on and in standby for five or so hours, the battery merely dropped 2% or so. While off for less than an hour, I had a battery drain of ~10%!
So I ran a little test. I shut off the phone and then replaced the battery. No problems the next morning. Thought the problem was resolved. Turned the phone off the next night and the following morning I'm greeted with the low battery signal again.
My theory (I think it's the only plausible one) is that the phone is not shutting off completely and something continues to run therefore draining my battery. Hence removing the battery while it's "off" and then placing it back in completely turned the phone off resulting in no battery drainage.
Is there a solution to this problem without resorting to another exchange (I highly doubt it)? Doctoring didn't help by the way. Each refurbed unit I got fixed one problem and added others. Aside from this battery problem and some minor light leakage, this unit is quite solid. I love webOS, but the shoddy refurb quality is giving me a headache...
-UPDATE-
Strangely enough, both batteries I tested were defective. What are the odds? Sprint replaced the battery and now all is well.

My theory (I think it's the only plausible one) is that the phone is not shutting off completely and something continues to run therefore draining my battery. Hence removing the battery while it's "off" and then placing it back in completely turned the phone off resulting in no battery drainage.
My battery was driving draining too which was really annoying. I use it extensively to make Long Distance business calls and it would die after 20 minutes or so. I didn't try taking it out when the phone was off but I did get a free replacement so I think there must have been a batch of defective batteries. london

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