My guess would be that you might be removing reguar batteries and inserting rechargeable ones. Like I said, I'm currently using a set of lithiums, and they are working great. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:12 AM Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Mixed up Keypad controls > I wonder if the state of the battery rechargeable or nonrechargeable setting could be saved along with other settings like speech rate, voice etc. I doubt we'll ever reach consensus regarding which state should be > default. But once you set it to your preference, why doesn't it stay that way through battery changes? If you properly shut the bc down before changing batteries, why doesn't that setting stick? > Mary > > >