Zen MicroPhoto charging questio

I was wondering how you could turn off Zen MicroPhoto from charging each and every time when you connect it to a computer? Can't the player be connected but stopped from charging?
The reason I'm asking is because you will eventually wreck the battery if you keep charging it when it's not empty or near empty.
If anyone knows something about this,please let me know.
Regards
Gonna

Thanks for your reply. The other problem is the fact that when you set your player to be used as a removable storage disk,it still charges once plugged into a computer.Maybe Creative could fix this problem through a firmware update.
The other thing I noticed is that when you put files on the part of your player that is used as removable storage,you can't access any of those files over the player itself (being either audio or photos). And when you plug the player in to the computer,you can't seem to copy files from the removable storage section to other parts of your player such as music and photos.Maybe I haven't figured it out yet,but from what I've tried to do so far,it just hasn't given me an option.
Gonna :smileyvery-happy:

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