Apple's Tip of the week - Two Seconds to Sleep anomaly

Apple states in its tip of the week
"Tip of the Week
Two Seconds to Sleep
Want the fastest way to put your Mac right into a deep, sleepy-bear hibernation-like sleep (no whirling fan, no dialogs, no sound — nuthin’ — just fast, glorious sleep). Just press Command-Option and then hold the Eject button for about 2 seconds and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It doesn’t get much faster than that."
at URL http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/quicksleep.html
I tried this on my 2x 2.5 GHz PowerMac G5 and it gave my computer fits.
First it took 5 seconds to goto sleep and then immediately wakes up again. Not only this but it corrupted my Safari in as much as clicking on any web link would cause a download of the HTML and then after deleting the downloaded file and quitting the Safari download window all the Safari web pages being displayed or active in Dock would terminate and disappear. I had to restart the computer to regain some sanity. It was repeatable as well.
If others experience a similar behavior I'd sure like to see some feedback as this is just too bad of Apple if its widespread.
BTW - I'm running 10.4.7 (since it was released to public) and file system permissions are presitine and all correct just for the record.
Thanks.

I have been using this for a over a year (forget where I found it) and always use it to send my PowerBook to the Land of Nod, rather than just shutting the lid.
When you do it this way, also, it is quite clear that some processes still need to do their thing, particularly a network; and also after using QuickTime (or video in iTunes).

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