Power Manager only charges 8-cell battery upto 36%

This problem is about to drive me insane.
It's new thinkpad X200 tablet and new 8-cell battery, only having 4 charge-cycle count.
I've just discoveried this problem when I upgraded to Windows 7 Pro and updated Power manager to V3.05 of my X200 tablet, but since it's on AC power most of time and I've set battery charging only starts when level below 5% and stop at 100%, therefore my battery only being recharged once or twice a week, but whenever it charges from 5%, it will just stop at 36% and display "charging will start when below 5%", so I will have to change the option in "battery maintaince" in Power manager to "alway fully charge" to have the battery 100% charged. But, I don't really want to choose the alway-fully-charge option torepeatly recharge the battery at near 100% since I have only a few occasion during the day where I need to rely solely on the battery, which only consume it down to ~90%.
I'm not sure whether the problem is due to the new version of power manager which regard my 8-cell battery as 4-cell?( logically, then it should stop at 50%, right?).
The battery once did charge on the ultrabase, but I can't remember if that was the time when the problem started.
Full Specification:
Thinkpad X200 Tablet, 7450-AM7
SL9400(1.86GHz), 2GB RAM, 160GB 7200rpm HD, 12.1in 1280x800 LCD Touchscreen, Intel X4500HD, Intel 802.11agn wireless, WWAN upgradeable, Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, Secure chip, Fingerprint reader, 8c Li-Ion
OS: Windows 7 Pro
Thinkpad Power Manager V3.05
Thinkpad Power Management Driver V1.55

Looks like the bios update is now posted. Please try it.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70651

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