Hibernating causes system to shutdown

I have a T400 2767-CTO with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53 GHz 2 GBs of Ram running Windows XP SP3.
When I put it into Hibernate the system goes through what looks like hibernating, with a hibernate progress bar but the system actually shutsdown.
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This was a nightmare to solve, but I finally figured it out (!)-
I have a Lenovo T400 (model 2764CTO) with XP downgrade, SP3 and all current Lenovo updates including the most current version of the BIOS (2.07).  Since installing the most recent BIOS, I was experiencing BSOD every time I closed the computer to hibernate OR when I would manually try to hibernate - I'd then get some error with ATI2dvag.dll.  Looking at the forums, this is hardly a problem I am experiencing alone.
Lots of people suggested reinstalling previous versions of the BIOS, which I tried - 2.03, and then 1.20 - but the crash persisted and resulted in a serious error for Windows that couldn't be reported by sending an error report (I got a screen that basically said "You're in trouble somehow, because the problem can't even be reported to us...some file is corrupt."  Bad news.
I then begin looking at forum problems elsewhere and found that the problem may be with the most current driver for my ATI Radeon integrated graphics card (HD 3400) - my driver was concomitantly updated to version 8.55.081010a-071474C-lenovo.  I decided to rollback this driver (can be found on Lenovo/ibm drivers download site) to the previous version: 8.503.2.2000.  I downloaded this, replaced the most current driver - and the problem has absolutely resolved itself.  Strong suggestion to anyone having similar crashes with hibernation/sleep - roll back the ATI driver.
Hope this helps - it took me about 3 hours to figure it out.  I sincerely hope that Lenovo and ATI look into this issue because it's incredibly frustrating to users and the potential to lose or corrupt data while doing something as benign as hibernating is very high.

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