G-Drive 1TB keeping my MBP from sleep?

Ever since I purchased 2 of the G-Tech G-Drives (1TB) my MBP fails to sleep when it's suppose to. The things I've done is reset SMC, PRAM and unchecked "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible". The drives are connected via FW800 and one is connected to the other also via FW800. If I turn the drives off the computer sleep as usual.
Any suggestions?

Add me to the list of problematic sleep issues with MBP's. I first thought it was the new G-Tech drives causing the problem but after a full 8 hours of diagnostics on my own and with Apple I simply give up.
Not really I'll be *** if I let this defeat me.
Things that I've done to no avail:
Note: this is with NOTHING connected.
1. Created new Adm user account.
2. Disabled all the below:
a. Sharing
b. BT devices
c. Put the HD to sleep when possible
d. Wake for network access
e. Secure virtual memory
f. iDisk syncing
g. Airport
3. Reset PRAM/NVRAM and SMC
4. Deleted
a. (From the HD) /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
b. (From the HD) /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
c. (From the Home Folder) ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
the tilde [~] indicates your home user directory, i.e. /Users/username)
d. Restarted computer
d1.This was very promising because after the computer restarted, I pressed sleep and it it was
almost instant. However after restarting it was back to it's old ways.
5. Removed all my login items (4). Canon Scanner Network, Growl, Diskwarrior, and Dropbox.
6. Started up in Safe mode.
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