Satellite A100 - battery is discharging overnight while power is off

Hi everyone,
I have a brand new Satellite A100 and I noticed that when I fully charge it and then turn it off and take the plug out of the socket, the next day when I stick it back into the socket the amber light says that it is charging.
So I turned on the Laptop and checked how full the battery is and it says 94%. I let it finish charging to 100% and then turned it off again and took out the plug from the socket. The same thing happened the next day! It had discharged again!
I'm sure I didn't put it in Hibernate mode because I checked all the settings and selected Turn Off to shut down the Laptop.
I've read about the battery recall so I looked it up on the toshiba site and downloaded the battery testing program. The result came out that my battery is not among the affected serial numbers. I even manually checked the number on their list but mine is not supposed to be affected.
Is anyone having the same problems or is it normal that the battery discharges by itself?
Please let me know.. Thanks :)

Yes of course, its not unusual that the battery will discharge also if the notebook is not on.
The same happens on my old notebook.
Then notebook was shut down for several weeks and after this period the battery was empty. I have had to connect the AC adaptor to starting the notebook.

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