G5 Dual 1.8ghz sleep problem

Hello all,
This is my first mac and ive had it about 4 months now with no problems, but i have since started to get problems when putting it to sleep.
It shuts down but then immediately starts back up when the screen goes off. I've checked all the screensaver options and energy saver options but cannot see anything that would make it restart.
I have disconnected the network to see if that makes any difference and also finally re-installed the OS X which i updated to Tiger 10.4.3 and that didnt help
I found an article with regards to resetting a PMU / SMU and tried that but again no go.
I also found an article explaining to delete a file from the library>preferences>.com.apple.powermanagement.plist, but again nothing doing.
There are no additional items attached to the machine. Just an Apple display and keyboard and mouse.
Is there anything else that i can do to try and get rid of this as my g5 sleeps every night when i do but wakes up prematurely?

Thanks for the response.
The strange thing is that when i was typing out the initial post, I made sure that the problem with the network was accurate by disconnecting the network and putting to sleep. It woke straight back up again, but once i had finished the post i tried it again and it went down. And stayed down. I have tried it again a few times since and each time successful.
I didnt change any settings and had nothing else connected to the g5, USB or otherwise.
I am also like an addict to the software updates and so check nearly everytime i start it up maybe 2 - 3 times a day, which is why the sleep mode is important to me.
Anyhow i just hope that it is ok from now on. Once again thanks for the reply.

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Machine Model: PowerMac 7,3
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Memory: 1.25 GB
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ATA Bus (DVD): Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D
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I own a powerbook G4 al (15") and I also have a sleep problem: my powerbook won't go to sleep when I close the lid or when i selectd Stop from the Apple menu.
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Hmmm...
1. You wrote: "-in my other partition (system 10.4.2) i can run the maintenance script (via terminal, launchd etc), after updating to 10.4.3 an error is reported (file non found etc)"What is the exact text of the message (in English, please ;-)).
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4.1.2. Open the Computer > Macintosh HD > Library > Preferences > SystemConfiguration folder and trash the following two files therein:
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4.1.3. Empty the Trash.
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Right guy's i to have researched this problem
concerning my auto sleep problem.I started off by
following Joeaux's original post by safe
booting,noting what was running in the activity
monitor,booting normaly and again noting what was
running now.I eliminated the same processes that were
running from both boots, and then started quiting one
by one, the extra processes, from the normal boot, in
activity monitor.Once you quit a process, allow the
computer to try to go to sleep i.e set energy saver
to 1minute and wait to see what happens.I tried the "
mdimport"as of Joeaux but this was not my problem.In
my case the sleep problem was down to two
applications called N67U_ButtonManager and
N124U_ButtonManager.These are for use with my Canon
scanner.I also noted that if i left the scanner
connected to the computer this would also stop it
going to sleep,even after deleting the two
applications.Hope this helps!
Thank you now i know that those login items are for my scanner, and not logic audio i am a little less angry(Logic is now an apple application but the version I run was from the emagic days and i presumed that the button managers were from this app as it was the oldest bit of software running on my machine) By the way any apps that may cause a problem like this are more than likely simply residing in your user login items and can be disabled from there permanently as far as i can see.

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Thanx,
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Additional problems:
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Hi all,
I have a MBP (3,1) running 10.5.2 and I noticed about 3 months ago that if I left the lid open the energy saver triggered sleep wouldn't kick in (very hot laptop next morning syndrome).
I've read a number of other threads on Leopard auto-sleep problems (which pointed to the HP AIO frameworks) but this doesn't appear to be the same issue I have...
If I quit Entourage 2008 then the computer will sleep after the correct period of time - and that's with no other changes to my normal use. Of course I'd like to not have to worry about quitting Entourage each time I might, maybe, just possibly not be back at the computer for a while.
Now in the system log I do keep getting the following strange entries:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Entourage.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Entourage[914]: Warning: accessing obsolete X509Anchors.
I have no idea what this really does and I do appear to have such a file in the system called X509Anchors...
If I switch Entourage to Offline mode then the entries don't appear in the system log anymore but... the unit still won't sleep. It requires Entourage not to be running it seems.
Having not seen anything else on the discussions forum relating to Entourage 2008 preventing auto-sleep I'm beginning to wonder whether it's just me?!?
Anyone else seeing this effect? And most importantly, does anyone know of a fix?
I have tried the NMS sleep utility stuff and although it worked perfectly whilst I was testing it using Energy saver timings of 1 minute... as soon as I upped the time back to my usual 30 minutes for CPU sleep it failed to work again.
Any help much appreciated.

Ok two things based on the crash report and the steps you took right before the crash:
# Try to disable scrolling acceleration and restart Firefox. Does it continue to crash?
# Try Safe Mode and do the same task as above with email and the pdf [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]]
# Also pdf.js may be helpful to read pdfs in the meantime. You can change the default reader in the Preferences/Options > Application menu of Firefox.
# Try to clear out the downloads folder and update flash to version 14 (that should do it)
IF it crashes again please also provide the new crash signatures and we can take a look :-) Sorry for the crashing :-(

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