MBP started shutting down when moved

I've had a 17” MPB for several months and it’s worked fine all this time, no problems. Upgraded to 10.4.9 a few days ago, didn’t start experiencing this problem until today. Here’s what’s happening:
I'm using the laptop at home. I close it up (which puts it into sleep mode), put it in the briefcase and take it to work. Open it up, it’s shut down. Interestingly, I push the power button and the sleep light comes on for a second, and then the computer starts up and goes through the regular boot cycle.
I then have to go connect my laptop to a digital camera in another part of the office, something I do routinely. I download the pictures, unplug the camera, lift the laptop up and it just shuts off instantly.
I reboot, leave it on the bench where it sits, run Cocktail to go through all the Unix scripts, repair permissions, clear caches, etc..., then do a restart, thinking hopefully that will clean things up. Once it’s started back up, I pick it up to bring it back into my office and again it instantly shuts down.
It seems to be fine if I just don’t move it, but if I move it, boom it’s just gone. This is a problem for a laptop.
Any ideas? If I can’t quickly get this remedied, I have a huge problem.

OK guys, figured it out, sorry to waste anyone’s time. After I entered my post above, I unplugged the computer to re-test and the minute I unplugged it shut down. Before, it wouldn’t shut down until I picked it up and moved it. So I wondered if the battery was properly seated. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. I guess I thought if I could unplug it and it stayed on that the battery had to be in there.
Well one side was unlatched. I pushed it back in and away we went. All seems well at the moment.
Sorry again.

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