System crashing or no booting when battery is inserted

Today I've experienced a problem I've never seen on my machine.
It's a MacBook Pro, early 2008.
It freezed while I was using it, something never occured. So I rebooted it, and after 10 minutes it freezed again. When I rebooted it, it didn't reach the gray screen, the screen was basically off, but the power led in front was on. It was very scary because 6 months ago I suddenly had the same screen when waking up the machine and I had to replace the logic board. I have to say that after the logic board replacement the machine has always worked as expected.
I've resetted the SMC and the PRAM, but the problem was still the same. I powered off/on the machine a couple of time, and I've reach the Apple screen once, but it crashed again while loading the system (basically the spinning wheel stopped and I had to power off the machine again).
I did the last test: removing the battery and testing it just with the AC current. And it worked. System is on and everything worked ok. Since the machine turned on I tried to repair the permission and verify the disk. The disk was not ok, I had to repair it via external drive.
So I thought it could be ok, I reinserted the battery and I powered on the machine. And it freezed again. I tried a couple of time and was always the same.
So I took off the battery, and now it's working.
My battery was in bad condition. It didn't last the 300 cycles-life "legend". Since I upgraded to snow leopard (180 cycles then), the status battery was changing from "service battery / replacing soon / replacing now". It was still providing an hour and so of power so I didn't care too much (my fault, I know).
My question is: could a bad battery be causing this behaviour?
Should I buy a new battery or the symptoms decribed could be something more? As I said, I already had to spend 600 euros for the logic board replacement (for a 3 years machine.....)
Thx a lot for your support, hope someone can help me

You clearly have a hardware problem of some sort, so take your machine in for service as soon as you can. An Apple Store or authorized service provider will have good batteries to use for testing purposes and proprietary diagnostic testing software that's not available to you or me.

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