MacBook no longer sleeps before battery run out

I have had my MacBook for a few years now, recently it started just completely losing power instead of entering sleep mode when the battery was low (the computer does not shut down it just completely dies causing me to lose documents I have been working on!), I assumed this was probably just the battery getting old so I purchased a brand new one (at great expense!) but this has not solved the problem - if anything it has got worse - it used to only occasionally do this but now it does it every time the battery runs down.
I have tried calibrating the battery but this has not helped, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions that could explain what is causing this or even solve the issue?
Thanks,
Matt

Hmmm...seems like everything -should- be okay.
I am guessing that you've run permissions repair by now. (That shouldn't effect your battery, but sometimes, obvious things are just that...obvious.)
This leads me to firmware checks and upgrades. Here's the how to: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1557?viewlocale=en_US
But before just blindly downloading stuff and running it, check as follows: Utilities>MacBook SMC Firmware Update (and/or MacBook EFI Update). Make sure those are up to date. (They should be, but...) If they are, stop. +Do not download anything!+
If they are not, I recommend backing up important files before attempting anything with firmware, just to be safe.
Best of luck--
Doc

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