Media, bad. Except when they're good.

Britney Spears' lawyers filed legal papers Friday seeking reimbursement of $25 for use of a private room at LA's Stanley Mosk Courthouse, where her conservatorship case and custody battle have played out. The room was "needed for privacy from reporters' eavesdropping," the pop star's lawyers wrote.

Sending perhaps a different message, Britney's mother is detailing her daughter's travails in a new book, Through the Storm, due out next week. The Associated Press obtained an early copy, in which Lynne Spears says that her daughter has overcome the tabloid nightmares of the past few years and is regaining her "glorious voice."

Lynne recalls feeling "shock and dismay" at seeing Britney shave her head, at her brief marriages to childhood friend Jason Alexander and dancer-rapper Kevin Federline, and at her highly publicized custody battles over her two children. Lynne also recalls feeling she had been "punched in the stomach" when she learned that Britney's sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, was pregnant at age 16.