They are sending me a new charger.
I know that you can charge a standard batter with it as I have done that. I did not try charging my new Smart Technology battery with the charger connected via a standard cable EC5 to EC3. The only cable that I had was a IC5 to IC3.
The charger has a IC3 connector and the battery has a IC5
I think the chip in the battery is working correctly as the Spektrum XBC100 Smart Battery Checker was able to read all of the battery information correctly.