...or I could follow up on my Die Hard comments with this link to straight off the AP wirefeed haeded "Former CEO sentenced to 10 years in car battery fraud case ". Here's the link to the story in my local paper's online version...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2002/12/20/national1426EST0659.DTL
I knew they'd switched to crappy Exide product, but I did not know at all about this whole scandal. Maybe explains why I was having bad luck with Sears batteries in this timeframe.