Reliability of batteries and their damage to equipment

[holmesuser01]

I bought a package of DieHard batteries (AAA) at Kmart one day. There were 10 in the pack.

I used 4 of them, and the next time I needed batteries, I found that the other 6 had burst. I looked at the 4 I had used in remotes, and found that even though the remote still worked, they had burst, too.

I'm not too happy about this, as one of the remotes is very old, and loaded with functions that are not on the machine it is controlling!! You know this problem.