T61p freezes randomly when on Battery Power

I recently got my new T61p and i'm absolutely loving it. However, randomly (and only when the laptop is not plugged in to AC power) the system will hang on certain tasks, usually web surfing since thats what I'm usually doing, and I'll have to do a hard reboot. Consequently, internet explorer and mozilla firefox tend to freeze sometimes when I'm on battery power. When I'm plugged into AC power everything runs perfectly.
According to this website http://www.utheguru.com/lenovo-ibm-t41-random-crash, this guy had similar problems with his t41. I have all the latest versions of power management and updated all drivers and patched vista. Any ideas on what to do? I don't want to uninstall power management b/c its so useful
edit: I use the 'Energy Star' profile for my power setting
another edit: Apparently it is to do with the Intel turbo memory. i'll try the solutions in this post and give u my progress: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=51908
Message Edited by systemf on 07-03-2008 06:45 PM
Message Edited by systemf on 07-03-2008 07:26 PM

I got my T61p last Friday. I'm having the same issues after applying all patches and driver updates. I can run fine on AC power, but as soon as I unplug the machine, the screen goes blank and I have to do a hard reboot. I have not been using Turbo Memory. For a few days it worked just fine, but then the problem started up again yesterday. I think it has something to do with the GPU.

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