Removing/Changing A2000 battery

[Waterland]

This is a lame question, but I'm not very knowledgeable about these things.  I have a leaking battery in my A2000 that needs to be removed.  How do I remove it safely without damaging the motherboard?  I don't want to remove the motherboard to get underneath and de-solder it, can I just snip the legs off with a wire cutter or something?  Is there another method that works better?

[melange]

Yes, snip off the Legs with wire/edge cutters.  Be very careful not to damage anything else. Nice sharp cutters :-)
Also wise to cleanup a little round the affected area or the acid can continue to damage the machine for some time to come.

[TjLaZer]

Search Google there are vast forests on this issue.

[rkauer]

Hi! Preferably put a cell phone or a cordless phone batt. in another (safe) place.

 You'll get the RTC working, no bugs caused by time mismatch, etc.

[Ideal]

What you can also do is just gently rock the battery back and forth until the legs break.
I did this accidentally.. hehe.