New sleep issues

So here's what I did:
I hit the key combination to sleep the computer.
It goes into sleep for approx. 2 seconds and then wakes up again,
I hit the key combination again. It goes to sleep and doesn't wake up.
I go to bed.
Many hours later I come back to the computer and discover it has woken during and night and is running full on, using electricity I don't want to be using.
Later that day I sleep the computer again, and on waking I discover that Finder has frozen and won't respond to the mouse.
This requires a hard shutdown and restart.
Can anyone explain this? It has only begun to happen recently. I haven't installed anything new lately or changed any settings.

Clearly there must be some under-the-hood process that is activating or not activating. Here's what I think are the relevant parts of the system log. They show that I went away from the computer at 03:41:04 THINKING I had slept the computer but it doesn't seem to have slept, Then at 08:38:45 I activated the computer again.
Oct 23 03:40:46 macintosh WindowServer[1223]: UCKeyTranslate - uchr may be corrupt, keyModifiersToTableNumFormat 6E01
Oct 23 03:40:55: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Oct 23 03:40:55 macintosh com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[477] ([0x0-0xd80d8].DivX Converter[1760]): Exited: Terminated
Oct 23 03:40:55 macintosh loginwindow[1222]: * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (2) beyond bounds (2)
Oct 23 03:40:55 macintosh com.apple.loginwindow[1222]: 2009-10-23 03:40:55.457 loginwindow[1222:107] * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (2) beyond bounds (2)
Oct 23 03:41:04 macintosh loginwindow[1222]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Oct 23 03:41:04 macintosh configd[13]: PMConnection IPConfiguration com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 131 ms
Oct 23 08:38:45 macintosh loginwindow[1222]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:10/23/2009 8:38:45.001 AM - Waketime:10/23/2009 8:38:45.000 AM = Deltatime:0.000781059

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Yep, the trick with the PMU reset (5 second thinggy) could help. Also, try to reset your PRAM...reboot and hold down Apple-Option-P-R until it restarts again. Release the buttons and there you go...PRAM resetted. However, your date/time setting will be set back to a very early date.
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If you want an icon for it just make a batch file: rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState (0,1,0)
And if you need a timer on it (I use this pretty often myself) use this: powershell sleep <seconds> | rundll32 powrprof.dll SetSuspendState (0,1,0)
And if you're curious about the (0,1,0) thing. It's all boolean, so 1 or 0. (A,B,C), A: Hibernate, B: Critical (in XP/2003 it forces the sleep, but in newer versions it asks for permission to suspend), C: Disable wake event (Wake on LAN would be disabled if this were 1, for example).

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Cheers, -JV

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Try resetting your SMC and PRAM.
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