Is my uh... battery suppost to flop out?

Hello my friends, I'd like to tell you of the wonderful things that has happened to me over the past year with myself and my iBook G4.
I got the machine back in February of last year from Amazon.com, they were having a really good deal so I said "What the heck."
It came about 5 days later. I opened up the package and the first thing I knew was the left side of the mouse button was elevated, my friend mentioned that to me but I told him I thought it was normal. Then I noticed a slight warp in the lower portion of the keyboard(you know that little dip between the wrist-wrests and the physical keyboard), I thought that was normal also.
I took the machine up to my cousins for my birthday a few weeks later. I was up on the couch typing an E-Mail when my battery fell out all on its own, so I had to go back and re-type my E-Mail. I have to keep constant watch on the battery while I'm carrying my iBook so the battery doesn't fall out... Some people say it takes a small coin to turn that screw, with me it takes barely a fingernail.
So a few weeks ago when Christmas rolls around, I get a stick of memory. I open up the keyboard and notice that the left little switch to take the keyboard off isn't spring loaded and the right one was. So I put the RAM in and let it be.
Then a few days ago I was on my way to my friends house with my iBook and the battery flops out of the machine onto the hard tar. I picked it up and noticed a small crack and some scuffs in the battery. But that time I was upset and called Apple.
Apple sent me out all the necessary things to send it in for repair. So I package up the machine and send it in...
A few days later I get an E-Mail from Apple saying the need to talk to me about my iBook. So I call them and they tell me that there is nothing they can do because it is my fault that these defects are there, granted I take responsability for the battery falling out, but it shouldn't have fallen out so easily in the first place.
I purchased the Applecare protection plan hoping that an issue like this could be resolved. I payed 300 dollars for the protection plan incase something like this happened. Apple wants to charge me $450 dollars to get the machine repaired.
I then proceded to call Amazon, bu they couldn't do anything about it.
I can't start even to express my feelings for what has gone on here.
It runs great, no problems ever.
Can anyone suggest anything that I should do?

Hi Sparta308,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
That is kind of unusual, I think. I would suggest first buying a new battery. I would do it just incase it might be the battery. The other thing you can do, which is the simplest, is to get some duck tape. I know kids from when I used the G3 iBooks in school that would drop them down a flight of stairs (they were like bricks) and the batter would pop out. You'd see maybe 10 kids with a grey colored battery.
I hope that helps,
Jon
PS I am sorry I don't have much advise

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