Can not sleep machine, external drive carryover problem from 10.5

just calling everyone's renewed attention to this silly problem with the OS.
After installing 10.6 last night i set my machine to sleep after an hour. This morning, i find the machine frozen solid. Manually pulling the firewire plug from my media-dedicated Mybook drive springs the whole machine back to life. Finder, Itunes, and Quicksilver were frozen, suddenly working fine again.
This was an issue with leopard from day one. It still exists on 10.6. Discussions on this issue focused on the failure of a drive to be woken-up after being put to sleep. I can't keep up with the kernal level discussions being had, but the conversation is well-documented in many threads under 10.5.
Despite the under the hood improvements, this issue has yet to-and must be- resolved. The alternative for this media center is not never let the computer sleep. Shutting it down as an alternative to sleep is a de-evolution compared even to windows (under vista, awindows 7, and tiger i do not have this issue with my drives.) Please take another look at it. Thanks! otherwise enjoying 10.6's speed.

William, you reminded me that it had been a while since i looked for drivers (well, i'm on a mac afterall). Western Digital offers "MacTurboDrivers" dec 2008. I'm going to give this a shot.
"This installer - WDMacTurboDrivers.dmg, contained within the WDMacTurboDrivers.zip file installs custom Western Digital performance based Turbo drivers and drive icons for WD USB and FireWire enabled external hard drives under Macintosh computers."
I popped in to report that, my situation has degraded somewhat since the Leopard issue.. i'm having the drive freeze the computer even while the machine and hard drives are not set to sleep! Heres hoping these drivers are more than candy..
has anyone else with a Mybook solved this problem? I have three mybooks - a 750MB usb, a 2TB firewire (time machine) and a 1TB firewire for itunes. The itunes drive is the only drive which fails to wake up. Before i had the 2TB, the 750MB was my itunes drive, and the 1TB was TM, during that time it the 750MB failed to wake up from sleep. Is iTunes the culprit? If so it is still a media-center disadvantage.

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