Change display close actions, and turn off sleep light

I know apple doesn't like to make these things easy to change but here goes... my powerbook is in my bedroom. when I close the lid, I must put something in front of the glowing sleep light or it keeps ME awake. is there a way to disable it? or does this fall into the same category as moving the song name column out of the first position in itunes? apple has made a decision (based on who knows what input) and the end user is stuck with it...?
while we're at it: can I change the action performed when I close the lid? lock my user account but don't put the computer to sleep, for example? leave everything as it is but just turn off the display? mute the volume? show that I'm still online but attach an away message in adium? these are all things I could do with windows (tho I would never switch back) and I'm not sure why it seems so hard to do things like this with a mac.

Welcome to the forum.
If you're in to tech,you can read this.
Description and modification of the different hibernate modes
When the computer goes into sleeping mode, its behavior depends on a power management variable called hibernate mode. The hibernate mode can be set to different values:
* 0 : Default sleep behavior on most Apple computers. RAM is still powered on while sleeping. Wake up is fast. Safe sleep is disabled.
* 1 : Hibernation behavior. System is totally shut down while sleeping. RAM contents are dumped to disk. Wake up is slow.
* 3 : Default behavior on Powerbook HD computers. RAM is still powered on while sleeping. Wake up is fast. Safe sleep is enabled, so RAM contents are also dumped to disk before going to sleep.
Only a single mode can be activated at a time. In order to check what hibernate mode is currently active, the following command can be used in the Terminal application:
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
In addition, users with administrator privileges can choose the hibernate mode. In order to do so, the following command can be used:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode X
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