Two week old ThinkPad X60 tablet battery bites it! help!

[camkego]

I'm wondering if anyone here has any suggestions for me.

I have a two-week-old
X60T which I bought direct from Lenovo.

My first problem was that one of the 512 MB RAM modules went bad,
but I had planned an upgrading to 2 GB anyway, so
it wasn't a total loss.

But what I really want to ask board members about is
about my battery.
I left the system plugged into the charger
without the charger being plugged into the wall,
and now the battery won't hold any charge,
it shows 0% charged on the desk bar display,
and when I click on the desk bar display it says:
"0% remaining, irreparable damage to the battery has
been detected. Replace the battery with a new one."]-

Was leaving the battery in the laptop plugged into the charger
without the charger being on the wall the cause of this?
Will Lenovo replace the battery?
(this is a two week old system, I purchased 12/16/06, and received
12/27/06)

According to the Power manager, the battery is:
mfg: sanyo
mfg date: 2006-12-04
barcoding num: 1ZC0F6C414U
FRU: 42T5204

Thank you for any help or feedback
Cameron Elliott

[pianowizard]

Was leaving the battery in the laptop plugged into the charger
without the charger being on the wall the cause of this?

I do it every night, on purpose (to be 100% certain that my Thinkpad won't get hit by lightning), and my battery is still fine.

Will Lenovo replace the battery?

Definitely. You should also tell them about the defective 512MB module, and I bet they will replace that too.