Airport prevents sleep

I have a powermac G5 1.8ghz machine which will not sleep when using Airport networking. When I try to make tha machine sleep, the screen go dark for a moment, the hard drive seems to spin down and then within seconds, the fans all cycle on and the screen comes on again. If I shut Airport off, the machine will sleep normally. I am running Tiger 10.4.2 with latest Airport Software (v4.2 at this time). The machine is connecting to an Airport express BS which is linked via WDS to an Airport Extreme basestation. Both basestations running latest firmware (v6.2 and v5.6 respectively). Have tried deleting preference files for energy saving management, bluetooth, etc. Hope this will not require a reinstall of the operating system. Any suggestions out there? Help please.
Update: now the system will not sleep even with airport off. I have tried repairing permissions, resetting PRAM.

I have a very similar problem on my G5 dual 2GHz ... I tried some stuff, but have no real idea what it could come from.
I do not have an airport card installed, so my problem seems not related to airport.
In the beginnig I suspected a hardware problem, but I do not have real arguements for or against it.
Could you solve the problem???
Gilbert

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    Welcome to the discussions, Dan!
    If the powerbook sleeps, it will not auto-reconnect after waking.
    The AirPort Extreme is "always on", there are no "sleep" related adjustments on this device. The "sleep" issue is with your powerbook or the operating system that the powerbook is using.
    Suggest that you post in the PowerBook Forum for your specific question.

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