10.5.3 Sleep and shutdown issues

I'm truly confused about the current issues I'm dealing with since my choice to upgrade to 10.5.3...
Since I upgraded, everything seemed to be fine until I closed my macbook and moved it into another room just to open it again. What happened? Nothing! That's the problem! The normally pulsing LED on the release button now stares at me with a constant, unchanging glow. I tried to open it and nothing happens! I was forced to hard boot my machine by holding down the power button only to be stuck with a lengthy boot back into the OS. Once I FINALLY got back to my desktop, I was able to hold option-apple-eject to put the macbook into sleep mode. The LED pulsed once again! I thought my troubles were over! Unfortunately, I was wrong. I figured it might be a good idea to cleanly shut down the machine and reboot it to reset the environment. My macbook never shutdown completely! It sat still with a black screen appearing to be off with the LED again.. Constantly glowing, unchanged... no pulsing... I let the machine sit there and do it's thing for several minutes and it never shut down... I was forced to hold the power button down to shut it off once again. Once the desktop arrived, I then tried again to do the apple-option-eject to place it into sleep and it gave me the unchanging, staring glow... Hard boot? AGAIN? What's going on here?
The most confusing part of this situation is it repeated the same symptoms after reinstalling the operating system from a complete erase and install. The only update I performed was the 10.5.3 combined upgrade after installing bare-bones Leopard from the installation DVD.
My kingdom for the ability to install 10.5.2 again! I've never had these issues before and I'm beginning to lose the faith I once had in the stability of this amazing operating system.

I've had the problem where my MBP doesn't wake up from sleep when I closed it recently. I think the problem is that when you close it, it writes all the information to the hard drive so that it can "hibernate". I've found (especially if I have a lot of things open) that if I open it too soon after closing, the best thing to do is close the lid until the light goes from solid to pulsing. This lets you know that the computer is actually asleep. After that, it should be ok to open the lid.

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