Regardless, I would still like some help/suggestions with my battery life problem.
I've had good battery life ever since first rooting my phone, so I'll share again what I always do. On stock, my battery was good for 10 to 12 hours of light to moderate use. I now regularly go 2 days between charges. You can see my ROM history in my signature, and it has been true across the board. To be clear, I don't always have good battery life upon flashing a new ROM, but these techniques always straighten me out.
1. Flash clean on a full battery.
2. Play with the phone, apps, etc. to get it set up how I want it.
3. Wipe battery stats in CWM.
4. Run the phone all the way down until it shuts down on its own (Tower defense games on a bright screen will help this along).
5. Leaving phone off, I charge it all the way up.
6. Once fully charged, I unplug the charger for a bit and then plug it in again, it will charge some more.
7. Play with the phone, let it run down all the way again until it shuts down on its own.
8. Repeat steps 5 and 6.
Now, I'm fully aware that this may have some detrimental effect on the long term life of my battery, but I've been doing this for about a year with great results. The phone is two years old, and those monster SGS2 aftermarket batteries only run $20 a pair. If this one gives out one day, I'll get over it pretty fast.
P.S. I've been using Neh4pres's AOKP auto brightness settings since he posted them, and I've had nothing but great results.
