Power Manager and LCD Brightness, System Freezes, and other Problems

I have a brand new X200 with PM 1.54. At first everything was working great. Over the past few days I've noticed a few things:
1. When running on battaries, the screen brightness changes about every 10 seconds even though the profile I'm using has that feature turned off.
2. After running the computer for about 1/2 hr, suddenly the PM shows a dramatic reduction in amount of time left on my battery which coinsides with:
a) fan consantly running; AND
b) about 10 minuntes later my entire system freezes and I have to push the power button to force a reboot.
Any ideas what's wrong?

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