Is iCloud causing battery draining problems?

I have been using my iPhone4 and my iPad2 flawlessly with my mobileme account for as long as it came out. The other day when I upgraded to Lion and started using iCloud, my batteries on all my devices including my MacbookPro have been draining RAPIDLY. I changed a bunch of settings on both the iPhone4 and iPad2, but nothing seems to be working. Even the battery on my Macbook is showing 96% and I haven't unplugged it in DAYS! It seems as though something is draining the battery life in all of my devices and the only thing I think it can be is the iCloud. I have been reading a bunch of topics on this and many people seem to be having the same problem. OH HOW I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO mobileMe!!!!! Why did I ever upgrade? Anyone know when apple will be coming out with a fix for this?

Is this problem related ot the 5G ipod?

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thanx!
marc

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