Battery draining when macbook pro sleeping

When i leave a certain program open and the macbook pro goes to sleep the battry drains to 0%.  When the program is not open the battery holds its charge when sleeping.  Is there anything i can do to prevent this program from runing down the battery?

To anyone claiming that the poster is "wrong" about their Unibody Macbook Pro battery draining during sleep- I would counter that you are the one who is wrong.
I used to have a 2006 Macbook Pro that I could close the lid, let it sleep for several days, open it back up and bingo, plenty of life, nearly unchanged from when I closed it. On my new 2009 Macbook Pro Unibody, if I close the lid and open it back up the next day, the battery is either completely gone and in hibernate mode or I have about 10% left. This is from a full charge!
Yes, I know the machine is actually sleeping because I have the pulsating light. No it isn't any software I'm running because I cloned over the hard drive from the old machine resulting in an identical system and experienced the issue right away. Later, I performed a clean install from Snow Leopard DVD, didn't install any software, and noted the exact same problem.
No it isn't the battery. It is in "normal" condition with over 5200 mAh remaining at full charge.
No it is not from BlueTooth; it is disabled. No it is not from a CD or DVD playing in iTunes, there is none inserted. No it is not from File Sharing or any other sharing; none are enabled. I have eliminated all the variables identified in this article (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1776) but still the problem persists.
This is definitely a hardware problem and one that Apple seems to be ignoring. I just can't justify buying another computer from these guys as all indications are that they have abandoned supporting their once core user base, professional media authors, in exchange for teeny-bopper iPod buyers.
Absolutely no acknowledgment of this issue after countless posts on many threads from dissatisfied users verifying the problem is bad customer service and bad public relations.

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