MacBook Pro won't sleep or shutdown (intermittent problem)

Every so often my MacBook Pro won't sleep or shut down. I can't find any rhyme or reason to it.
I notice the problem when I close lid, and it doesn't go to sleep. I then hit apple menu:sleep, and it does nothing. I hit shutdown, and OS shuts down, but gets stuck at blue screen with spinning circle indefinitely. Have to hold power button for 5 seconds to finally shut down. Startup is then slow, but doesn't give me an error message indicating improper shutdown or failure.
Most of the time it sleeps fine and shuts down fine.
Other posts seemed to have the problem more reliably, and the fix had to do with startup items. Mine is intermittent, and the only items in my startup folder are Norton Antivirus and Parallels.

I am also experiencing the exact same problem you are describing. Completely random when the machine will not sleep or shutdown, although it seems to occur more often when I've had the machine running for a few days, moving between home and office locations.
I have VMWare Fusion and Office 2004 installed. No iStatPro. I'm wondering could it be related to the kernel extensions that VMWare and Parallels install? Is anybody experiencing the non-shutting-down problem who doesn't have either VMWare or Parallels installed?
I found the following section in my system.log file that occurred the last time the machine wouldn't shut down. May be of some use to somebody
Aug 31 18:07:10 monza loginwindow[90]: sendQuitEventToApp (Microsoft AU Daemon): AESendMessage returned error -1712
Aug 31 18:07:21 monza shutdown: halt by james:
Aug 31 18:07:22 monza SystemStarter[14860]: authentication service (14870) did not complete successfully
Aug 31 18:07:28 monza SystemStarter[14860]: The following StartupItems failed to properly start:
Aug 31 18:07:28 monza SystemStarter[14860]: /System/Library/StartupItems/AuthServer
Aug 31 18:07:28 monza SystemStarter[14860]: - execution of Startup script failed

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