well before Itook those batteries out of the camera it probably took 900 pics in about 2 or 3 weeks, and only about 6 videos from the testing I did and the video was set at 30 secs, I did put brand new genaric batteries in the camera tuesday night ( the same kind as the reading Igot of 1.66) and I have the solar panel plugged in also, so when I get back out there I will probably pull those genaric batteries and put in some top name brand batteries and see if that is not the problem, and if its not I think I will just bang my head against the tree and see if that fixes me or the camera LOL
thanks for all your help I sure do appreciate it