Computer does soft "shut down" when lid is closed

Hello everyone,
I have a MacBook Pro I bought in late 2008 that has been having a strange problem for the past six months or so. I take my laptop with me everywhere. About 50% of the time when I open the lid, the computer will have gone into a sort of soft "shut down" while it was asleep. In other words, it used to simply wake up when I opened the lid, but now I have to hit the power button as if the computer had discharged and wait a minute or so for it to wake up. The battery is always at full on these occasions, so not sure why it would do so. Anyone else have a similar problem?

Hi Sam,
At a guess the sleep mode setting has changed or it's getting confused about the state, try using SmartSleep and see if that makes the behaviour more consistent.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/smartsleep.html

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