U350. Literally overnight...Battery won't charge and wireless quits working.

I've had my Ideapad U350 since June of 2010 and had absolutely zero problems with it until now.
Up til now, I haven't been experiencing shortened battery life or internet problems...now, out of the blue, the battery doesn't charge and the wireless won't come on.
I keep my system up to date and my anti-virus current.
When plugged in, the computer turns on. The battery light beneath the keyboard flashes orange constantly. Mousing over the battery icon on the taskbar, the popup indicates that the system is plugged in. The battery is at 0% and not charging.
The light for the wireless does not come on at all regardless of the position of the switch on the side or any software settings that I've tinkered with.
I've gone to network connections and right-clicked the wireless...disabled it, re-enabled it...tried to diagnose the problem, windows just says that the card needs to be turned on.
I've un-installed and re-installed the device drivers from the device manager, no go.
On a whim, I backed up all of my data and used the one-touch system restore to go back to factory settings. No dice.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I've got the wireless up and running.
At some point in the past, I had disabled the Lenovo software that put that annoying display in the lower right corner every time you adjusted brightness or volume or what not...
Having just reset my computer to factory settins (which confuses me as to why it wouldn't just WORK...it worked when I got it..) the software is once again up and running and I noticed that every time I flipped the switch on the side, the indicator would pop up in the lower right corner of my screen for wireless on/off...but the light near the touchpad still wasn't coming on.
So I hit fucntion F5. The Lenovo Wireless Device settings popped up and I turned it on from there. Voila.
Ok, one problem down.
Battery is still an issue.
I Disabled the ACPI-Colmpiant Control Method as instructed on the other thread, let the computer reboot...re-enabled it. Nothing.
Tried another reboot. Disabled, waited a few minutes. Re-enabled.
When I mouse over the icon on the corner it still says the battery is at 0% and the computer is plugged in but not charging.
I've read a number of complaints about the batteries failing around the 1 year mark in these laptops...but this one was showing NO signs of trouble until it all of a sudden quit charging and it's only been used for about 7 months..and even then, not heavily used.
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