Power Supply Isn't Charging the Battery

This is a rather tricky issue. It's happened before, a few weeks ago, but it had seemed to work itself out and began functioning normally. As I was playing Neverwinter Nights today, the iBook went to sleep. I had the Power Supply plugged in whilst I was playing, assuming that it was charging the iBook. As it was going to sleep, I would try to wake it up only for it to sleep again after a few seconds. I managed to save and exit the game, and I noticed it's at 0%. So I unplug the adaptor and replug it. It continues to go to sleep, so I shut the iBook down.
After a few hours of fiddling with it and checking for information online on my iMac, I managed to get it to charge to about 15%. At this point, I turned the iBook back on and tried to get it to continue charging, but it's slowly been working its way back down to 8% or so ever since.
What's strange is that the 'ring' on the plug lights up as Orange, but it doesn't charge. I've noticed if I leave the iBook and Power Supply plug alone, the charge indicator will sporadically change between 'Battery Life Indicator' to 'Battery Charge Indicator'. It's not like it flickers between the two, but every few seconds or so, it will change from one to the other, but it still steadily drains the battery. I've tried resetting the PMU, but it doesn't seem to have done anything with the situation. I also tried to diagnose if my Power Supply is bad by reading Apple's information pages on it.
One of the troubleshooting documents shows images of bent metal rings on the connector. I looked at mine, and the metal ring is separated at the tip ever so slightly, nowhere near as bad as in the images. I can't figure out what's wrong. Could anybody give me some help?

I have the very same problem - you could try someone else's charger if possible
did not work for me though
If you get any luck could you forward the reply to [email protected]
cheers
Jason

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