MBP 2009 Mavericks battery issues

So I've 'upgraded' to Mavericks on my MBP 2009 and since im eating 1% battery every minute with anything and everything flagging as using too much battery.
I would like to keep Mavericks but I have tried the things ive found which were supposed to fix this issue like SMC reset and NVRAM reset. Any other ideas before i give up and go back to Leopard, which whilst not amazing for battery, would normally serve me 4hours ish, im currently working on about a hour and half max! killing my laptop use now!
Thanks

The information you paste from System Profiler indicates a capacity of way above 2%, pddrome. 4831mAh is more like 86% of original capacity (around 5500-5600 mAH) for a 15" MBP 3.1. It doesn't look like a "failed" battery at all, but one that's pretty normal after 100 cycles or so.
I'd be wondering whether something else is going on here. Maybe a problem with your system management system or the like that is giving you "false" readings, or perhaps even dirty battery contacts or some such giving erratic results.
Just by the way, a Li polymer battery left unused will deteriorate over time anyway. You would probably be better off swapping the two batteries every few days to maximise their lifespan, rather than using one heavily and one very intermittently.
But the SP info you provide doesn't suggest that your battery is dying. I'd be wondering about other issues with charging or system management generally.
EDIT - I think I can see where your mistake is. You are comparing the actual amperage figure (second bottom in the column) with the total present capacity, rather than the total present capacity with the original capacity.
Not surprising it jumps around if this is the case! The amperage figure depends totally on the current rate of power usage at the time when you run system profiler. It doesn't tell you anything about battery condition. Fire up a processor or disk intensive program and it will go screaming up if you run SP again. Shut everything down apart from SP and it will drop, etc etc.
Sounds to me that with your new order you will soon probably have 4 good batteries to keep on swapping around!
Cheers
Rod
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first of all i dont own the device yet
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