PoppaGator -

I think the second link first post gives a website that Dell is setting up so that you'll be able to check and be sure. I don't know if Dell even has all the info up as yet. There should be lot numbers, if not serial numbers, on the batteries for positive identification.

There have been at least a dozen prior recalls of laptop batteries since they started using the Li type. Thus far, I haven't seen any reports of injury or even any really serious damage - unless you count that pallet of several thousand cells that all went up in one spit at LA International Airport a couple of years ago.

I haven't attempted to track recalls for any other kinds of devices, but there have been several for recalls of Li batteries in GPS units, cell phones, mp3 players, and others. Most of these are lower volume, and in more fragmented markets where no one producer puts out too many of a given kind, so they haven't drawn nearly as much attention as the computers. And the batteries are much smaller in most of them; but Ya' might take it real personal if a device you had stuck in your ear started spittin' sparks at ya'.

John