I checked out the link of those pics of that's guys battery and it wasn't as bad as that. I'm thinking it was just scoffed up. Pretty much wasted a brand new wrap on it, but I didn't want to take any chances. There was nothing under the wrap on the battery casing, so it was fine. and no battery casing was exposed. It was just a pain peeling the wrap off, since it was pretty much brand new, and I had nothing to grab on, like a tear in the wrap to start it off. Better to be safe than sorry though! Thanks for the reply jgreck!