it is morning. I still have 4 bars!! The tooltip says 8 days idle and 5 hours in use!

Somehow it is all back to normal

The last thing I did was to turn on the RSS applet, disable its 4 hour update and then disable the applet again.

Hmm. yesterday, I also removed my 2 SanDisc 2GB SD cards. one of these was previously corrupted and only had half of the space showing. I wonder if the battery died trying to read the bad SD card? (The only SD card I have now installed is the Nokia 128MB mini that came with the unit.

(I also bought a new router yesterday as the old one was losing connection too frequently but this is unrelated I think)

I hope this is fixed for good now! I guess I have to try putting in the SD cards again...