17" MBP Frozen after Sleep

I have a 17" MBP 2.66GHZ I7 that is connected to an Apple Cinema display. Most nights when I allow the computer to go to sleep it wakes to a frozen but distorted log-in screen. I have to force shutdown via the power buttton and then power it back up. This happens when the lid is open - I leave it that way for purposes of keeping the MBP cool and the fans quiet at night. Any ideas what might be causing this to occur?

Try starting in the Safe Mode and see if you get the same results:
Starting Up in the Safe Mode
What is Safe Mode
Also try using another account to see if you get the same results. Disk Utility doesn't repair permissions for your user account. To do this,boot to your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys while booting) and open Terminal from the Utilities menu. In Terminal, type: 'resetpassword' (without the 's) and select the admin user. You are not going to reset your password. Click on the icon for your Macs hard drive at the top. From the drop down below it select the user account which is having issues. At the bottom of the window, you'll see an area labeled Restore Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Click the reset button there. The process takes a few minutes. When complete, restart.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

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Try starting in the Safe Mode and see if you get the same results:
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Also try using another account to see if you get the same results. Disk Utility doesn't repair permissions for your user account. To do this,boot to your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys while booting) and open Terminal from the Utilities menu. In Terminal, type: 'resetpassword' (without the 's) and select the admin user. You are not going to reset your password. Click on the icon for your Macs hard drive at the top. From the drop down below it select the user account which is having issues. At the bottom of the window, you'll see an area labeled Restore Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Click the reset button there. The process takes a few minutes. When complete, restart.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

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