Snow Leopard and MacBook Pros

Hey,
O.K. I've got a brand new unibody 17" MacBook Pro. It's loaded to the hilt, and I paid a fortune for it. Unfortunately, it's a **** good-looking paperweight.
After only 51 re-cycles on the battery and several weeks of usage, I bought it in August, it's become almost completely unusable. The "service battery warning indicator" shows up all the time, it shuts down randomly at what appears to be sufficient battery life remaining, and it burns battery power like crazy while in sleep mode. This has all occurred after upgrading to Snow, ah-hum," b-l-o-w" leopard.
The big kicker is that I can't seem to downgrade to any other previous verision of OS X. The computer simply will not allow me to install an OS other than Snow Leopard now.
It is my strong belief that Apple has either acquired a large number of faulty batteries or that Snow Leopard has a major bug in it!
Since Apple will delete this post unless I ask a question, etc. etc....
I ask this: Does anyone have a solution for this? What can be done to fix the issues I mentioned here.
It is my strong belief that Apple has either a serious bug in S

If you're relying on a plainly defective battery to power your computer for much of the day nearly every day, it's certainly no wonder you're having trouble. Get the bad battery replaced, then determine whether you still have problems. You likely will, because all those unexpected hard shutdowns may have scrambled your hard drive directory for fair. Use Disk Utility's *Repair Disk* function to straighten it out as needed, calibrate your new battery properly, and then see whether your computer works as it should. Don't fool around trying to reinstall the operating system until you see what a new battery will do for you. And don't use a retail Leopard installer DVD if you do reinstall the OS: it won't support all your MBP's features. You need to find the DVD that came with the machine or use your Snow Leopard installer DVD, one or the other.
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