Account specific sleep problem

Guys,
My Mac has suddenly stopped going to sleep properly (Auto, it's fine if I put it to sleep).
The screen goes blank and the light on the front illuminates constantly rather than lighting then fading. I can also hear the mac is still really awake (HD I guess?). So I think it is just putting the display to sleep. There is nothing else running, I haven't installed any new software or connected any new hardware.
I have reset the SMC, and run the daily, weekly and monthly maintenance tasks. I've just logged into my wife's account and all is well here, so I guess it's a problem with my account. I seem to recall that I may have to delete some prefs but can't remember what and I don't want to go and fiddle where I'm not sure what I'm fiddling with.
Any help greatly appreciated.
McD

Yes McD,
it seems only display goes to sleep.
I would start with a timid approach, only in this User Account's Caches folder:
Try first to delete only these files
Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache
see if it works. Then this folder
Home/Library/Caches/System Preferences
I wish it might be as simple as this: a corrupted cache that would have to do only with System Preferences.
Of course you could always try then, if it still doesn't work, to simply trash the whole Caches folder (for this user),
If you do that, restart your Mac before trying again to set your Energy Saver preferences.
Good luck,
Axel

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