IMac G5 pre-Intel sleep problem

I cannot put my iMac to sleep manually by using the toolbar. Have tried reinstalling OSX, and anything I can think of. Any help?

It could be the power supply, but it also could be a failing logic board or hard drive. If it were the power supply, your machine would shut off when it got too hot. If you can boot from your install disc, use Disk Utility to check your machine out:
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.
You can also run Apple Hardware Test which should be on one of your install discs.
Once you done this, please let us know how things went,

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    Another weird problem...my site is still on an SBC webhosting.com hosting server and I can only access the SBC hosted site with Safari not the Godaddy site. SBC has not cancelled the account and has not taken the old site down as of yet.
    I have tried clearing the cache, Firefox, and pinging the godaddy site ip address.
    Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

    very strange...right after I posted, I received an intel mac security upgrade...installed it and the problem was fixed...wow...
    sorry for the post...

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