Cannot wake machine (no loginwindow) when sleeping with dashboard started

Hi folks,
I know part of this, but I'm trying to figure out if there's an easier way to fix the problem.
I'm running 10.5.7, and not too much cruft. I have account preferences set to require password entry when waking from sleep.
The problem is I cannot login when the machine has gone to sleep, when the Dashboard is running. The machine does power up, but displays a blank screen with just a cursor. Keypresses cause a beep. Also, at this time, although it appears certain apps are running (I hear iChat reconnect) I cannot ssh to the machine from another host (although it does ping).
I am guessing a couple of things: first, that this is caused by a mis-behaving dashboard widget and/or preference. Second, I am guessing that the login window is "there" but just not visible. My theory here is that perhaps I can't ssh to my machine if loginwindow is already asking me for my password.
There's nothing interesting in any of the logs. I can try moving widgets/prefs around to isolate this, but it's time consuming and "hard on the machine" to constantly have to reset it (there's no other way to get in, unfortunately).
I thought I'd post to see if anyone had any diagnostic shortcuts (or, of course, if anyone has seen this before).
Thanks!

So, the new battery arrived this morning, and there are now no sleep issues. Thank you!

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