Mountain Lion Freezes From Sleep Mode

It seems like Mountain Lion is going into this "kernel" panic mode after I try to bring my computer back from sleep mode.  That thing everyone a lot of people talking about where it locks up and you can't force quit anything or do anything except watch the spinning beach ball and move between open applications.
These
  Model Name:          iMac
  Model Identifier:          iMac11,1
  Processor Name:          Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
  Number of Processors:          1
  Total Number of Cores:          4
  L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
  L3 Cache:          8 MB
  Memory:          8 GB
  Processor Interconnect Speed:          4.8 GT/s
  Boot ROM Version:          IM111.0034.B02
  SMC Version (system):          1.54f36
  Hardware UUID:          E1ECD31D-0FEF-5073-9ABE-F9BB5C19F503
For what its worth I have tried removing all peripherals and see if it does it and it still does it.   This behavior doesn't happen to me at all while using the machine normally, only when I am coming back from sleep mode.   When I upgraded it didn't list any incompatible software.    Also I am noting that after a few trys I can relaunch finder but the spinning beach ball remains.   I was thinking that it was something like Windows Explorer crashing but it seems lower level problem then that.   There is something hanging and it doesn't seem like an application.   Seems like something in the OS, well, obviously because this wasn't happening before I upgraded.   I am just going to shut my machine down after I am doing using it for now so I am not hard resetting it four times per day.  Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Okay, it has been over 30 hours since my iMac has done this.    It doesn't have that problem where it sits and spins any more.   My workaround is to go into System Preferences, Energy Saver, and slide the Computer Sleep all the way to NEVER.   I still put my display to sleep same time though.  And I also uncheck Put Hard Disks to Sleep When Possible.    That seems to have done the trick for me.    I have done nothing else to remedy this and my rig would freeze up on my three times per day so there you have it.    Hopefully they will fix whatever issue is plaguing the sleeping computers.   I know there are alot of them out there set that why by default.

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