Zen Stone Plus won't charge for more than 10 min

When I charge my zen stone plus, withint 5-0 mins it will be full, as indicated by both Creative Mediasource lite as well a the blinking blue led.
But once I turn on th eplayer i am shown with only 2 bars of battery and within 5 minutes of use I am down to one bar.
What's going on?
Resetting the player doesn't seem to work at all!
I haven't even had a chance to properly use it at all >

Me 2... I bought 2 Zen stone plus and the two wont charge for long too... I leave it for 4hrs and still the battery bar is only one bar full. Hai~~sad... And to make things worse, one of them the volume button is faulty. Anyway does anyone of u haf creative support hotline?

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