thanks for the help guys, I will try resetting it to the factory specs or reformat it or both. I do have the manual and all that, thankfully the guy I got it from game me EVERYTHING including warranty papers and such. I will let you guys know whats up.

But the battery thing, it probably had about an hour or an hour and a half on the battery. The screen started turning yellow when the battery got down to 20 min. or so.