A few quick points about battery reconditioning:
It can be helpful for the older (type II, Ni-Cad) batteries, Type III
batteries (Ni-MH) don't have a 'memory effect', so battery reconditioning
does nothing for them. Apple's official word on that was "it can't
hurt", so they left it in as an option. My experience is it can hurt. I
had a working 280c, fresh off Ebay, but the battery was dead. I saw the
battery conditioning program and thought, 'woo-hoo maybe I can save this
battery.' and ran it. Upon trying to awake the duo, very bad news. I
get the chime and happy mac,then the hard drive spins up, makes a little
noise, spins down, over and over. So either the hard drive failed
coincidentally with the battery reconditioning, or battery reconditioning
killed it. If you have type III or type IV batteries, I wouldn't
recommend it. Even with type II batteries, letting the battery fully
discharge is the same thing as reconditioning.
As far as your software problem, try a fresh install of the
reconditioning software. Zap your pram and rebuild your desktop. Try
running it with a minimum extension set, if it runs then you know you
have an extension conflict. As a last resort re-install your system
software.
Good luck.
--Abe N.
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