I am not sure what the cause was but I recently noticed the same thing other were reporting, my battery was lasting only a few hours even when I did not touch the tablet. Uninstalling the applets has made a world of diffence. I can no longer watch the battery drain away.

1. I had the .5 version and then .6 versions installed. I noticed it under the .6 versions. It may have been there before but I did not notice it.
2. I had the net stat, home ip, and cpu applets installed.
3. Just disabling them did not seem to make a difference. I did not try disabling them and then restarting the tablet.
4. Even doing an uninstall did not seem reduce cpu usage. I have the oss cpu monitor installed also and it still showed too much activity for an idle tablet. After rebooting the device it then went back to normal.
5. The home cpu applet seemed to sit at 388 mips (I think that was the number) almost all the time. 160 mips would show up periodically but not often. I would see 250 flash by at times but that was rare.