[Darkflame808]

When I got my touch vogue, I just kept the battery. All the care about is the main phone itself.

When you call it in, just ask them to send you an additional mailer for the battery. Explain to them that when you put the battery in the phone gets REALLY hot. Tell them you are worried the battery might cause damage to the phone or the mailer and don't want anything happening to the phone on it's way back that might affect your claim.

These have been my responses thus far.

"You can just toss the battery"
"All we need is the main handset"

One lady seemed really concern and she said
"you can discard the battery, be careful in packing it so that it doesn't cause a fire or anything"