[piranah]

the 1% battery meter will drain your battery faster actually, as it polls it more often. to see if you have a data connection that keeps popping up, i usually go to the com manager, and see if the data connection is listed

if it is i try and turn it off, if it wont stay off, i know i have something running in the background.

its late, and i dont feel like lookin for stuff, but look for arcswitch and HDTweak. ArkSwitch will kill any running programs you have and let you know how much free mem you have.

HdTweak will let you autokill the data after its not being used for a certain amount of time.