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dvus wrote:

I wonder if the 2 Gig memory card that's installed could be the problem? Has
anyone had a problem like this that could give me some ideas?

I remember seeing a report of exactly this sort of problem a while ago.
See

http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=11693034

I saw another mention of a similar problem in a posting at Steve's
Digicam Forums but I can't find the article at the moment.

The problem seems to depend both on the camera brand/mode, and on the
SD card brand/model. I don't know why, but hypothesize that some
characteristic of certain cards can cause a camera's firmware to fail
to power the card/socket down when the camera goes to sleep ("switched
off"), and that the static current drain of powering the card
eventually flattens the battery.

Try a different brand or model/type of card.

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