Best way to disconnect from external screen?

This problem has been on-going, but I am only now asking for help. It has recurred over now 3 reinstallations of 10.5.
I have an external (Dell) screen, and I run my MBP (Core Duo 2GHz) with the internal screen closed. I have not been able to figure out how to detach the computer from the screen and have it reliably sleep. Instead of sleeping, the MBP goes into some sort of dark-screen state, in which I have to first kill it (holding down the power button for 10 secs.) and then reboot it.
There are the following connections: sound out, USB out, video out, and power.
For a while I tried the following: sleep the MBP (from the Apple Menu), unplug each of the wires. Often when I do this, the MBP will wake up when the USB is disconnected, but since the lid is closed, it doesn't really wake up. When I then open the screen, the screen does not light up, and I have to kill and reboot the machine.
Later I have been trying: unplug the external screen, then unplug the other wires. This seemed to work until today, when I found the same problems.
I have this feeling that the machine isn't really crashed, but that somehow it is losing touch with its built in screen, since I find that I have to first kill the machine (pushing power button for 10 secs), and then reboot it. But since the built-in screen is dark, I don't know what else to do.
Obviously, I could always shut down when unplugging the external screen, but I would rather not do this.
Thoughts?
A

I'm unable to recreate the problem on my CD MBP running 10.4.11. It's unclear if you are still unplugging peripherals after you sleep the MBP, but the bottom line is that you shouldn't do that - unplug the USB and the external monitor (audio out/headphone port doesn't matter) +and then+ put the MBP to sleep. Also, note that you should not move the MBP until it is really asleep. Look at the light on the latch - when you select sleep, the light remains solid for a while, then starts pulsating. During the solid light period, the MBP is writing the contents of RAM to the HDD (Safe Sleep); if you move it during this process, you may trigger the sudden motion sensor on the HDD and interrupt sleep (it may still appear to sleep, but when it "wakes" it does so as you describe, with a black screen. (Note that this is the main cause of the "+I put my MBP in the bag and when I took it out it was blazing hot and the screen was dark and it wouldn't wake up, so I had to do a hard reboot+" posts.)
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