15" MBP C2D reboots on lid close

Well, it's happend twice in the last 24 hours. I unplug the new 15 MBP C2D. I close the lid. <Dong> The laptop immediately reboots with the lid shut. Not sure if it is a hard reboot or soft, as I haven't had any applications with unsaved work lost -yet-....
The battery seems to be fine and hold a charge well. This reboot thing doesn't happen every time, but now I'm about 2 for 15 in spontaneous reboots after lid closure. (2 for 3 in the last 24 hours).
Anybody else having this problem? I've got the 160GB upgrade and have BootCamp installed.
-Andrew Hires

It happened once to me - this morning. I was using my MBP C2D while travelling to work, shut the lid, packed it in my rucksack, and when I woke it up from sleep at work I noticed that it had gone asleep at the end of the boot process (just before the login window shows up). The log confirms that it actually rebooted some time after I closed the lid, and that it had not finished writing the "sleepimage" file (This is from /var/log/syslog, please check what your own machine was doing when it rebooted!):
Nov 15 08:23:32 gazonk kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 214748364
8, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Nov 15 08:23:32 gazonk kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 5
12, pollers 3
Nov 15 08:24:11 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
Nov 15 08:24:11 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
Nov 15 08:24:11 localhost kernel[0]: 64 bit mode enabled
I'm also pretty sure that this machine uses a little more time waking up from sleep than any of my previous mac laptops - anyone noticed this?
Btw: I'm not sure I really want this hibernate thing. I think I'd prefer the machine going to sleep real fast. Anyone know how to turn off the hibernate functionality?
MacBook Pro 15" C2D 2,33/2/160, MacBook (white) 2Ghz/2/120, PB G4 12" 1.33Ghz/1.25/60 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Ho Lee MACkeral wrote:
That CD2 OS will not boot into a new computer's OS.
Hi, thanks for replying.
I knew that the switch to Intel from ppc, meant a ppc drive, partitioned with APM could not boot an intel machine with a GUID partition table.
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