X201 crashing only if power cord and battery are both in use

I have a thinkpad x201. ThinkVantage has been telling me for a while that I should replace my battery. Late summer, my machine was crashing for no reason. It would be on and poof, dies. No warnings, no errors before dying.
I then decided to replace my battery. At which point I found out that my battery was recalled. I got a new battery from lenovo, and ThinkVantage does not tell me there is any problem with the battery anymore.
However, my x201 keeps crashing. After multiple test scenarios, I figured out the following:
- if only my battery is plugged (no electricity), the laptop will NOT crash.
- if the laptop is plugged into the power supply (no battery), the laptop will NOT carsh.
- if laptop is plugged into the power supply with battery still installed (electricity+battery), the laptop WILL crash.
I am running Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (64 bit) with core i7 M 620 @ 2.67 GHz and 4 GB of RAM.
Any ideas as to what I can do?
Thanks in advance!

the repair should be covered by 3 months, if you are within that then you should be okay.
If you are out of warranty, lenovo offers post warranty warranty on your laptop, it should not cost more than 200 dollars for the basic package, and then get it fixed under warranty.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-PWMA
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Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
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