From your first post it might have been speculated that the battery (batteries?) had, during storage, sulphated beyond resuscitation, which could have been solved only by their total replacement.

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Which is, better worded, what I was led to think by the PowerBook's behaviour.

(And by the way, I apologise for my verbose rambling in my last PM -- I was indeed frustrated by what I thought was an irreversible situation.)

Cheers!

Rick