Thinkpad Power manager causing problems in Vista

Hi,
We have been having problems with the Thinkpad power manager (all versions that we've tried) on Vista with T400, T500, and T60 series laptops.  These problems range from the program crashing to blue screens and reboots.  If we remove the software and use Vista's built in power manager, the battery life gets cut in half but we do not have any problems. Has anyone else had these problems?  Is there a way to reliably increase the battery life using Vista's built in power manager?  If not, how can we get the thinkpad power manager working correctly?
Thank you,
Brandon

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