My New MacBook does not charge the battery at all

Initially, it stayed at 65% with the exteranl power connected all the time. Then it stayed at 0% after I used it without external power. Now it definitly does not start if no external power attached, and sometimes does not start even with exteranl power attached - I can only get it started by taking out the battery, putting it back and plugging in the exteranl power. And the cutomer service ***** - I am retuning it for sure, wasted too much of my time.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Well, I did want to exchange it initially, but the process of getting Apple to admoit there is something wrong with this BRAND NEW system was too painful for me. I never had a similar experience before. Yesterday, after spending almst half day on the phone, I finally got a technitian to admit that the bettery was bad, but the customer return department already closed. (I called both of them a number of times and experienced serveral transfering back and forth, and cutting off). What really pi**ed me off completely is that this morning when I called the custermer return again, the guy STILL transfered me to the tech support WITHOUT listening to me and WITHOUT my permission. Maybe the Apple product IS really that great and worth being abused and treated badly for, but I have never had such a bad experience in my life before, and I do not want to spend a premium price for a system comes brocken and needs half a month to get it "repaired", not mentioning wasting my warrenty on it. So I am going to stay away from Apple's product till they really know how to treat their customers. Before then, I will just return everything they sent me and let my credit company, American Express, a company really stands behand their customers, to deal with them and get my money back.
Ironically, I am the lead quality and reliability engineer who qulified the Intel GMCH for Apple...

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