Some one messed with my battry settings, now its ****ed, help.

hello all.
i have a friend who is a mac fanboy, he knows all these tricks of getting around a mac, and he was showing me some things with my battry settigns, how to show how much time left, and so on.
but later that day, and ever since, instead of my mac warning me its got hardly any power left, and instead of going to sleep it turns off instead.
1- what did the guy do? he doesnt know either
2- is there away to restore the system defaults to sort this out, with out doing anythign to my hard drive applications, music and so on.

Hello mx:
If we had some idea of what he did, we could trash some preference files. Since we do not, I think I would opt for an archive and install:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
You should, of course, back up your system before any software changes.
Barry

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