Hi Simon - sorry I missed the excitement, but glad you got your baby up and running. I replaced the cheap "brick" charger I was given with my Powerbook with a genuine apple square charger. It is a tighter fit in the connection. Does look like the battery and perhaps PRAM is going as the date changed the other day, and the battery is now down to 49%. I also found a new top case to replace my cracked one, anyone done this? Anything to look out for? Cheers! Kent "A person who won't read has no advantage over one that can't read." - Mark Twain "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read". -Groucho Marx