Power-manager only present stuff reported by HAL, and lshal does not report battery and lid. /proc/acpi has entries for battery and lid, so I suspect kernel is presenting them to userspace, this is why I think HAL is the prime suspect, but it can also be the kernel reporting some state differently and breaking HAL as a side effect.
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