I am having the exact same issue on my Acer Aspire 1680 and Feisty Fawn. If I boot to the old kernel (2.6.20-15) everything works fine, but if I boot to the newer kernel (2.6.20-16) then my /proc/acpi/battery directory is empty and gnome-power-manager says there is no battery.
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