Putting dual 1.8 GHz G5 to sleep breaks Mac OS X's Console.app

My mother's G5 is having problems with Leopard it seems.
I did a fresh install of Mac OS X 10.5.1 (that's what's on the DVD) and everything seemed fine. I'm quite sure it's after the upgrade to 10.5.6 that the problem happens (of course it can be any of the updates in between too) because if I remember correctly the problem doesn't occur in 10.5.1.
What happens after the wake is that after a few seconds (upon clicking something, i.e. a menu) the beach ball comes up and it takes a minute or so then there's a few seconds where the stall goes away only to come again. I once managed to ask it to restart, but it then got stuck at the spinning cogwheel (shut down process after the menu bar and Dock has disappeared) so I did a forced restart.
After the restart the computer seems OK again, but when trying to launch Console.app to see if there would be anything in the logs Console.app crashes. Something is broken. It was this ”broken Console.app” that made me do the re-install in the first place, so in other words it's the sleep that triggers the problem and also (indirectly maybe) breaks the functionality of Console.app.
Any ideas on this?
As it is now at least version 10.5.6 of Mac OS X doesn't seem to work very well on at least this particular G5 model...

Nap is a power saving feature.
The following processor states are defined:
■ Run: The system is running at maximum processing capacity with the processor running at full speed.
■ Idle: The system is idling; this is the default state. All clocks are running and the system can return to running code within a few nanoseconds. If the system has no work to do, it will be in idle mode.
From idle, the processor will enter deep nap state when the system is power-stepped to half frequency. In this state, the processor’s internal frequency is reduced to 1/64 of the maximum frequency. The processor frequency is returned to normal on exit from idle. The exit from idle takes a bit longer than the regular idle nap but is still in the nanoseconds.

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Thanks.

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G5s require SATA 1.5 Gb/s, some SATA2 or SATA3 drives are SATA1 compliant & step down, others do not, still others will if there's a true SATA1 Drive in slot 0.

I have a Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2.3 GHz/6GB RAM/500GB HDD/Superdrive PowerPC Desktop and just bought an Airport Extreme card for it. The card is recognized but will not see the in-house network. This is a pre-intel computer. Do I need an antennae?

I have an Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2.3 GHz/6GB RAM/500GB HDD/Superdrive PowerPC Desktop and just bought an Airport Extreme card for it. The card is recognized but will not see the in-house network. This is a pre-intel computer. Do I need an additional antennae? If so, which one because my research is confusing me about what is supposed to work with this computer.

Please check out the following Apple Support article to see if your particular Power Mac model supports an external Wi-Fi antenna.

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