No Response from macbook- is it dead?

I have talked to many people and read a lot online, but nothing's worked yet. My 15" Macbook's battery only would last about 15 min, and if left in sleep mode for long enough the battery would run out and the computer would power down. Usually, if that happened, the computer would start back up after being plugged back in for a little while. However, on Monday, the battery ran down while in sleep mode, and it hasn't started since. There is absolutely NO response when pushing the power button, but the battery appears to take a charge with the green lights lighting up. We've tried taking the battery out and putting it back in. We tried starting it w/out the battery, just plugged in. We tried all of the suggestions to reset different settings by pushing commandaltpower and a few others. We are several hours from a mac store, so we can't just pop in there. We've thought about trying a new battery, but we're trying to find answers before we invest ~$100 into something we're not sure will work. Any new suggestions or insight is hugely appreciated!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Have you tried all the suggestions in this article?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1365
This sounds like it could be a power management problem of some sort. Even if you have reset the PRAM and SMC, try that again.
Good luck!

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