Sudden reduction in reliability after Calibration

I was browsing MacUser.com a while back and they were talking about calibrating your battery. I went to Apple's site and did the calibration sequence and now my battery is less reliable!
I ran the battery low and then charged it all the way full and let it sit for at least 2 hrs. I then used it until it came up and warned me about the low battery and then I let OS X turn it off on it's own after running it longer. I then let it sit in sleep mode until the sleep light turned off. I then let it charge all the way up (though I don't recall waiting 2 more hours at this point).
Now I am having problems with sudden sleep mode with no warning. Inaccurate run times although this is not consistent, it tends to happen when the charge is less than half and I am using the laptop off and on. I have also seen a reduction in estimated run time after a full charge.
I was using iStat Pro before this and got a consistent +90% or better reading, now it dips down to 60% regularly but often ends up back around 90%.
I currently have 149 cycles on the battery.
Is my battery going?
Did I foul up my calibration?
PS. Apple should really create a utility to prompt you thru the calibration process and let you know if you messed it up. "Did unplugging it for 10 sec mess the whole thing up?" It would be nice to have a utility prompt you for each step and of anything you might do that fouled it up.
MacBook Pro 15" Core 2 2.16 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Sounds like you may have a bad battery.
Contact AppleCare.

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…I'm not referring to any conversion of numbers or RGB values…
But of course you are Vincent RJ, you are!!! Most definitely you are! Why can't you grasp that basic concept? ?? !!
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