[Ed Zachary]

May have a fix, or at least a workaround...

I read in another battery-life related thread where some folks improved their battery life by killing an app, any app, after doing a soft reboot.

What I did:
Powered off.
Powered on.
Went into application management and killed Calendar (what the other person killed, as well).

Calendar has since restarted.

And my timers are almost three hours different. And the battery is NOT almost dead!

I'll see if I can find that thread and post a link to it.
And I'll post an update after a couple days of running.