How to make iBook sleep automaticlly when power button is pressed?

I have an iBook G4. It had Tiger on it, then I took it apart to replace the hard drive and ram, and put Leopard on the new hard drive.
Now, it doesn't sleep when I close the lid. I can't find a setting that changes this, so I'm assuming something happened when I took it apart.
But also, now when I press the power button, it brings up a prompt that asks if I want to sleep, shut down, or restart. It's pesky because what used to be just closing the lid is now a button push, pointing, clicking, and then closing the lid. When I had Tiger it would just sleep automaticlly when I pushed the power button. Is there any way to get it to do this again? Or perhaps something I overlooked that changes what happens when I close the lid?

Hello,
Check you have the correct options set in system preferences under 'Energy saver'.
Just make sure it's not set to sleep 'Never'
Seeming this iBook has been opened, it could be a problem with the magnet used to trigger sleep mode when the lid is shut.
Regards to setting the options for the power button, this is defined by the version of OS you have installed.
From what I recall, the screen options were available from Mac OS X 10.5 when you pressed the power button.

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