Macbook Pro 13" won't turn on even when plugged in and battery in "good health".

It started the day before yesterday: My husband called to tell me that the Macbook wasn't turning on.  So I told him to hook it up to the charger and plug it in; according to him, the charger light was on but the laptop still wouldn't power on.  Then I told him to hold down the power butten for a couple of seconds (about 5 or more) then release it; again, it still wouldn't power on.
When I arrived home, I took it to a friend and had him take a look at it.  (There are no Apple stores on Guam and I bought my laptop from a military base in the States, so I couldn't just "take it to the store".)  He opened it up, disconnected and reconnected the battery, resecured the back panel, and plugged it back in.  The Macbook powered on.  At that time, he suggested downloading the Battery Health App and following the instructions to calibrate my battery gauge - which I did.  By the time I finished calibrating the battery, the stats indidcated that my Battery Healthy was still pretty good (92.something %).  Afterward I did poked around a few forums (including Apple) and found a few threads suggesting to reset the SMC; so I did (using the instructions for the Macbooks with the built-in batteries: Shut down laptop, plug in the charger and hook it up to a powersource, press option+control+shift+power button at the same time then release, and the press the power button).  After all that trouble, the laptop still remains down.
After being misled by the Battery Health App, I'm wondering if it's just a case of "dead battery".

The MBP should work with the power adapter connected.
Put your serial number of your MBP in the entry field in this web site:
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
This will provide you with the exact model MBP information.  The OS that you show (which may be incorrect) indicates that it is Tiger.  If that is the case, the SMC that you performed was using the wrong directions.  This way we may be able to clarify this situation.
Ciao.

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