Automatic Sleep Not Functioning

I have read the other posts on this topic. Unfortunately, nothing in them has helped, and it seems that everyone else's problems have been fixed by various things posted in those topics. Here's my problem:
My MacBook Pro will not sleep automatically, no matter where I place the sleep timer. I have tried quitting all third party apps. I have checked the Console, and I thought I found the problem there. Apparently Mozy (a backup utility I had previously deleted) was still being attempted to run every few seconds by some helper deep in the system. I ran the uninstaller, and that stopped, but still no automatic sleep even after restart. I thought it was Connect 360, but I disabled that and confirmed no processes related to it were running, and still no automatic sleep. I tried disabling Spotlight. Still no auto sleep. I tried disabling Time Machine. Still no automatic sleep. I'm getting incredibly frustrated.
Manual sleep works just fine. This problem did not happen under Tiger. My Leopard installation was clean. Please, any help on this matter that hasn't been covered in other threads will be very, very appreciated.

Ha! No answer to your question. I have the same problem. Computer simply doesn't go int sleep mode as set in the energy saving prefs. Seems to be a real bug! Why does Apple not react?

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